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    A maternity colony refers to a temporary association of reproductive female bats for giving birth to, nursing, and weaning their pups. The colonies are...
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    August, P. V. (1981). "Time and energy budgets for dayroosting in a maternity colony of Myotis lucifugus". Journal of Mammalogy. 62 (4): 758–766. doi:10...
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    Then, a maternity colony was found in the abandoned Hôtel des Chênes, South of Ain Draham. The presence of this first known maternity colony in the country...
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    serves as a habitat for the world's largest urban bat colony. This particular colony is a maternity colony, which means it provides a roosting place for pregnant...
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    Mexican free-tails inhabiting the wild sanctuary, plus a seasonal maternity colony of about 20,000 females who move in each spring. The Bat World Sanctuary...
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    bat boxes that are too shaded will not heat up enough to attract a maternity colony of bats. Australian bat box projects have been running for over 12...
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    are used most often by a maternity colony. Trees that support smaller numbers of Indiana bats from the same maternity colony are designated as alternate...
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    are typically solitary, while females form maternity colonies, where they raise their pups. A maternity colony may range in size from 12 bats to 200, although...
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    A leper colony, also known by many other names, is an isolated community for the quarantining and treatment of lepers, people suffering from leprosy. M...
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    clings to the mother for about a week, after which they remain in the maternity colony until they are able to fly. Most young take flight by four weeks of...
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    the colony of the Pipistrellus pygmaeus and the decrease need for energy because of thermoregulation. (Davidson-Watts and Jones) During the maternity colony...
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    A maternity hospital specializes in caring for women during pregnancy and childbirth. It also provides care for newborn infants, and may act as a centre...
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    home, often using hollows burned into the redwoods by past fires as a maternity colony.[citation needed] In November 2010 sea otters (Enhydra lutris) have...
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    is less than one thousand, and the large colony at Mt Etna has gone into decline. The Kohinoor maternity colony at the Top End is stable but vulnerable...
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    Nursing & Maternity Home, Main Vikas Marg, Laxmi Nagar (Delhi) Dharamshila Narayana Hospital, Vasundhara Enclave Azad Nagar Anand Vihar Colony Bahubali...
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    peaks in May. Up to two hundred females congregate in an underground maternity colony and give birth during May and June. Prior to this, the bats spend an...
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    Dickson-Poynder], Joan Alice Katherine, Lady Altrincham (1897–1987), organizer of maternity and nursing services in Africa". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
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    access to Bat Cave is strictly regulated to minimize disturbance to the maternity colony, but Starlight Cave is on private land and therefore less protected...
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    purchased a farm building in Devon that is now home to the largest known maternity colony of greater horseshoe bats in western Europe. Roost acquisition continued...
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    Kugelschafter, K. (2014). Real time observations of Strix aluco preying upon a maternity colony of Myotis emarginatus. Vespertilio, 17, 185–196. Speakman, J.R. (1991)...
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    Orangi Town (redirect from Bismillah colony)
    Muhammad Nagar, Sector 05, Orangi Town) Dar-Ul-Shifa Medical Center & Home Maternity (Johar Chowk, Shahrah-e-Qaddafi, Sector 14, Orangi Town) Korean Hospital...
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    investment in bat camera technology and monitors, to track the significant maternity colony of Lesser horseshoe which occupies the attic space of the house. A...
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    of Ceylon and its Dependencies from 1931 to 1948, was the British Crown colony of present-day Sri Lanka between 1796 and 4 February 1948. Initially, the...
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    of hibernating Virginia big-eared bats as well as the largest known maternity colony. Higher-than-normal winter temperatures could boost temperatures inside...
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    evening bat (Nycticeius humeralis) on the northern edge of its range—a maternity colony in Michigan. The American midland naturalist, 154(1), 264-267. Whitaker...
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    Bats maternity colony in the cave....
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    Sector 5-E, front of Saylani Medical Centre Iram Emergency Hospital & Maternity 24-Hours sometimes in Sector 5-E near 4K Market Anees-ul-Rehman Clinic...
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    including a progressive land tax (1910), invalid pensions (1910) and a maternity allowance (1912). The government established the Commonwealth Bank (1911)...
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  • consumption of prey, suggesting the cave was occupied by the population as a maternity colony and feeding roost. Long, J.A.; Archer, M. (2002). Prehistoric Mammals...
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    year-round, and multiple pregnant and lactating females may form a maternity colony, despite the solitary nature of most lasiurine bats. One study found...
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