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"Mammals—with the exception of bats, guinea pigs, and, most notably, human beings—make vitamin C in the liver. Humans must obtain it through diet—from foods such as fruits and vegetables—or through supplementation. Vitamin C deficiency leads to weakness, poor immunity, internal hemorrhage, and an unraveling of the connective tissue that binds the nuts and bolts of the body. Outright deficiency is called scurvy." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Ebola virus outbreaks are linked to mining development in previously untouched areas as well as hunters looking for exotic bush meat; the AIDS pandemic is believed to have originated from human encroachment into African forests where wild chimpanzees were a reservoir for the virus; and fruit bats in remote areas are thought to be the original source of several high profile zoonotic pathogens which have spread to humans, the most recent of which is SARS. Similarly, H5N1 virus, or avian flu, is often the result of farmers and infected fowl crowding together in prime living space." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"That's a weird feature we share with other higher primates (monkeys and apes), guinea pigs, the red-vented bulbul, and fruit-eating bats. Every other species in the world makes its own vitamin C. One theory is that since vitamin C is found in fruits and vegetables, and since fruits that are safe to eat are often sweet, nature in her wisdom gave us a sweet tooth so we would seek out the very foods without which we would die. And make no mistake—without vitamin C we'd all be dead as doorknobs. Without vitamin C you can't form new collagen, the main protein in connective tissue." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"A fly simultaneously sees dozens of pictutes of its immediate environment. bats navigate using radar, an entirely different system from ours. A dog doesn't see color but can smell, hear, and feel things that human beings do not. As part of its own survival strategy, each species constructs its own world of sensory impressions out of the energies around it. Whose world-view is more accurate? During the Asian tsunami crisis in December 2004, news agencies reported a compelling phenomenon: the wild and domestic animals in Sumatra fled to the mountains in the hours before the tsunami struck." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"I suggest that what occurs in these demanding situations is a milder version of a process that has been discovered in some fascinating research carried out on bats (Saillant and Simmons 1998). The bat brain, in processing the echoloca-tion data issuing from the cochlear system, which enables the bat to avoid obstacles and home in on its prey, has been found to employ what the authors of this research call time expansion. In effect, bats have been found to possess the temporal analogue of a zoom lens, where greater magnification can be bought at the expense of a smaller visible expanse." - Michael Lockwood, The Labyrinth of Time: Introducing the Universe (Get the book.)

"Fruit bats the size of seagulls circle close above. At first, he's adamant that I won't be able to taste it. "We'd both be shot," he says. "It's totally illegal." I point out that paying for it may be a crime, but all we need to do is find someone willing to share it with me, rather than sell it to me. After a few drinks, he softens: 'Well, it can always be tried." He starts making some phone calls, speaking a rapid Creole. Hanging up, he smiles widely. "I'm 80.56 percent sure we can get some." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Nearby, some fruit bats are munching on bananas. "They come in with six-meter wingspans over the water looking like pterodactyls," says Jameson. After he drops me off at Silver Beach, I lie down on the sand under a large tree. It seems to be pulsating with faint lights. Am I hallucinating? Suddenly, one of the glimmering lights lands on my chest. It's a firefly. The tree is full of them. The following morning, a wizened old woman with two rows of lower front teeth hobbles into the lobby." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Each year at the beginning of the conference, he would push a towel cart through the aisles, collecting bats and balls and other sporting goods. Cast in among the bounty one year was a newfangled heart rate monitor, which at the time was worth hundreds of dollars. He couldn't help himself; he stole it for the revolution. "I saw that son of a buck," he freely admits, "and I said, That's a door prize for Madison Junior High!" During the weekly mile, he tested the device on a sixth-grade girl who was thin but not the least bit athletic." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"These are pollinated by bats and develop into large oblong fruits, each containing a large number of seeds surrounded by fruit pulp that turns powdery when it dries out. Origin & history A. digitata occurs only in tropical Africa. There are a further six species in Madagascar and one in Australia. Parts used Fruit pulp, seeds and leaves. Cultivation & harvesting Trees are occasionally cultivated in gardens and parks but so far no commercial cultivation has been attempted. The fruits are wild-harvested in rural areas." - Ben-Erik van Wyk, Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide (Get the book.) "They are self-sterile and have to be cross-pollinated (by bats and moths). The attractive fruits are pink or red, thornless on the surface and weigh up to 600 g each. Inside they are white to dark red, with numerous small black seeds embedded in the pulp. The red pitaya (H. undatus) has become well known, but several species of Hylocereus and Selenicereus produce edible fruits. The yellow pitaya (5. megalanthus), for example, is similar but the yellow fruit bear spines that fall off when the fruit ripens. Origin & history Central America (the exact geographical origin is uncertain)." - Ben-Erik van Wyk, Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide (Get the book.)

"If this line of thought is correct, then those who have experienced time inflation at first hand will have been exposed to a mild example of what bats experience in spades, with time expansion, as the research revealed, of up to sixteen times or more. People such as Michael lordan, therefore, may have a better claim than most to have an inkling, at least, of one facet of what it is like to be a bat! The central idea, here, was proposed, as long ago as 1860, by a Baltic?German naturalist by the name of Karl Ernst von Baer." - Michael Lockwood, The Labyrinth of Time: Introducing the Universe (Get the book.) "Since this is known to happen in bats, it would seem a plausible speculation that, under the right sort of pressure, something similar might occur within the regions of our own brains that process the data provided by our senses. This is the point where we need to bring into play the assumption that we have no means of gauging the current temporal span of the specious present, independently of content. Unaware of time expansion as such?" - Michael Lockwood, The Labyrinth of Time: Introducing the Universe (Get the book.)

"The subjects of the study had all been clinically diagnosed as having a phobia to small animals such as spiders, snakes, bats, and mice. The study used several different measures of the strength of the participants' phobia before and after the study They measured their pulses, to see the extent by which they rose when contemplating the object of their fear. They measured the number of steps toward the feared animal a participant could take." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"In effect, bats have been found to possess the temporal analogue of a zoom lens, where greater magnification can be bought at the expense of a smaller visible expanse. As regards the echolocation data, it clearly benefits the bat, from time to time, to exchange a sensory window (or 'specious present') with a wider time span but less detail and definition, for one with a narrower time span but more detail and definition." - Michael Lockwood, The Labyrinth of Time: Introducing the Universe (Get the book.)

"Korun ox Bats" Powder, weH shaken, in a keg of water and applied with a sprinkbaar pot. spray syringe or whisk broom, will be found very effective. Keep It well stirred up while u»rfng. Bold ew all Drtsgsrteteand SUtfekeepers. lRc.Rc.ftfL H BL Wells, Chemist, Jersey Cfry. H. J. ASK FOR MUST if your chickens rtont grow, look for head lice tANBMtn) DEATH TO LICE OINTMENT will fix (hem and frighten the. brood*. *?<—r? f?ml*. fMlMM. •Mm** pool(ry book ft**. AMrtm, ? J. lAMHRHT. T-oMMwr, The example above advertises the availability of an effective pest control applicator." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"Darwinists assume that the relationship between, say, bats and whales is similar to that between siblings and cousins in human families. Possibly it is, the proposition is not self-evident...we observe directly that apples fall when dropped, but we do not observe a common ancestor for modern apes and humans. What we do observe is that apes and humans are physically and biochemically more like each other than they are like rabbits, snakes or trees. the ape-like common ancestor is a hypothesis in a theory, which purports to explain how these greater and lesser similarities came about." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"Just as strawberries are adapted to birds, so acorns are adapted to squirrels, mangos to bats, and some sedges to ants. That fulfills part of our definition of plant domestication, as the genetic modification of an ancestral plant in ways that make it more useful to consumers. But no one would seriously describe this evolutionary process as domestication, because birds and bats and other animal consumers don't fulfill the other part of the definition: they don't consciously grow plants." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.)

"CGA means argi-nine and GCG means alanine — in bats, in beetles, in beech trees, in bacteria. Until the genetic code was cracked in the 1960s, we did not know what we now know: that all life is one; seaweed is your distant cousin and anthrax one of your advanced relatives. The unity of life is an empirical fact.'14 The processes by which life comes into being are also largely similar." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"Finally, a scientist from the Institute for Ethnobotany at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Hawaii, who is an expert on bats, came to a startling insight. Although the BMAA levels in cycad flour are indeed low, this flour was not the only dietary exposure to cycad on Guam. It turned out that the meat of the flying fox bat was a prized Chamorro delicacy, so much so that the local animal population was hunted to the point of extinction in the years preceding the decline in the Parkinsonism epidemic." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"If you disapprove of bats, consider reconsidering this attitude; unless you fly at night and you are a whole lot smaller than they are, bats won't bother you; and they garble from the garden sky a myriad of flying insects that take great delight in bothering you.) Arrange aU the above things in your garden near your plants. The birds you attract eat bugs that eat plants, and most important, the songs of birds are the perfect serenade for plants. It has been discovered that no other form of music makes plants happier and more garden-active. bats patrol the garden airways for you at night." - James Green, The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook (Get the book.)

"Swanepoel was unable to infect the insects, but he was able to infect three species of bats found only in the so-called Ebola Belt of Central Africa.40 The virus quickly replicated in the bats, with no deleterious effects on them. Most disturbing, Swanepoel said, was the discovery of large amounts of Ebola in the salivary glands and lungs of the bats, pointing at a possible respiratory route of Ebola transmission from the winged rodents to other animals or human beings. An entirely different line of observation was offered by French researchers working in the Tai Forest. WHO's Dr." - Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.)

"If you disapprove of bats, consider reconsidering this attitude; unless you fly at night and you are a whole lot smaller than they are, bats won't bother you; and they garble from the garden sky a myriad of flying insects that take great delight in bothering you.) Arrange aU the above things in your garden near your plants. The birds you attract eat bugs that eat plants, and most important, the songs of birds are the perfect serenade for plants. It has been discovered that no other form of music makes plants happier and more garden-active. bats patrol the garden airways for you at night." - James Green, The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook (Get the book.)

"Among these non-vitamin C producing animals are fruit bats, primates and guinea pigs. For example, long-term dietary deficiencies of vitamin C in guinea pigs result in esophageal and gastric cancer. [IARC Science Publication 41: 665-77, 1982] Americans produce no vitamin C internally, and obtain all their vitamin C from their diet, about 110 milligrams per day. Hunter gatherers long ago consumed as much as 600-700 milligrams of vitamin C daily, so the sparse amount consumed in modern times appears historically low." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"It was eventually determined that both the Hendra and Nipah viruses originated with bats. Large numbers of bats are infected with these viruses but suffer no ill effects. All these infections in the rinderpest family kill animals that provide us with food. Or they kill those, like horses, that have been otherwise essential to our existence at some point in history. In general, none of these infections directly threatens us, though rare human cases have occurred. Best of all, the possibilities for eradicating the focus of these infections are excellent." - Jaap Goudsmit M.D., Viral Fitness: The Next SARS and West Nile in the Making (Get the book.)

"Between ad iooo and 1650 guano-producing fruit bats vanished as the islandets killed off more than half the native bind species. Historical accounts and changes in the abundance and variety of bones in prehistoric deposits indicate that by the time of Cook's visit Mangaians had eaten all theit pigs and dogs, and probably all their chickens too. The Mangaian diet began to change radically—and not for the better. After most protein sources were gone, charred rat bones became prevalent in deposits excavated from prehistoric rock shelters." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Lohse and J.W. bats, Angew. Chem. 101, 1539-1540 (1989). [4] H.W. Rauwald, R. Maucher and D.D. Niyonzima, Pharmazie 52, 962-964 (1997). [5] J.A. Hutter et al, J. Nat. Prod. 59, 541-543 (1996). [6] S. Yongchaiyudha et al, Phytomedicine 3, 241-248 (1996). [7] A. Yagi et al, Planta Med. 63, 18-21 (1997). [8] G. Speranza et al, J. Nat. Prod. 60, 692-694 (1997). [9] R. Saleem et al, Planta Med. 67, 757-760 (2001). Aloe capensis Cape aloes Ph. Eur., USP Plant sources: Aloe ferox Miller (Cape aloes) and, according to the USP, hybrids with A. africana Miller and A. spicata L." - Josef A. Brinckmann and Michael P. Lindenmaier, Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals: A Handbook for Practice on a Scientific Basis (Get the book.)

"Neurological Impairment Results of this study showed betaine to be effective in enhancing the vitamin B-12 nondependent part of methionine synthesis in bats exposed to N20 with impairment of the vitamin B-12-dependent methionine synthase reaction. —J. van der Westhuyzen & J. Metz, "Betaine Delays the Onset of Neurological Impairment in Nitrous oxide-induced Vitamin B-12 Deficiency in Fruit bats," Journal of Nutrition, 114(6), June 1984, p. 1106-1111." - Gary Null, Ph.D., The Clinician's Handbook of Natural Healing (Get the book.)

"Cecropia trees (nearly 100 tropical species in South and Latin America) are propagated by the many small fruit seeds they produce; bats, monkeys, and birds eat the succulent fruit and disperse the seeds in their droppings. Often, dense stands of trees can form that choke the growth of other plants anywhere that the canopy is disturbed. Indian tribes in the Amazon use embauba for its anti-inflammatory properties—typically for rheumatic, kidney, and lung inflammations. The leaf is made into a tea and used widely for asthma and other upper respiratory complaints, as well as for diabetes." - Leslie Taylor, ND, The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals (Get the book.) "It produces bright green leaves in matched pairs, white, fragrant flowers that are pollinated by bats, and an oblong, brown, pod-like fruit with large seeds inside. The fruit is considered edible although hardly tasty; one of its common names, "stinking toe," is used to describe the smell and taste of the fruit!" - Leslie Taylor, ND, The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals (Get the book.)

"Synthesizing ability has been lost by 1 % of animals, in monkeys, bats, guinea pigs, and most humans, although a few persons are said to produce some internally. Norm is 1.4-1.5 mg./100 ml. in blood plasma; 5000-6000 mg. in the body, 32 mg. per pound of body weight; since Vitamin C is water-soluble, excess is lost in 3-4 hours. More Vitamin C is needed with more diet Protein. Antitoxin, bio-internal activator, for Enzyme activity, cell synthesis, vital for intracellular fluid nutrient and electron transfer." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.)

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