Jingle Bats

Sam and Simon must clear their names and find the real thief when they are accused of stealing toys from the donation box while they work as Santa's elves.

Sam and Simon must clear their names and find the real thief when they are accused of stealing toys from the donation box while they work as Santa's elves.

Sam and Simon are off on a spring break vacation, with a crime to solve: someone has stolen four giant turtles.

When their teacehr is charged with stealing jewelry, Sam and Simon know he isn't guilty. The Bat Gang sets out to catch the real thief, but soon the boys get into more trouble than they can handle.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the evolution of traits associated with predation and predator defense for bats and all of their prey, both invertebrates (e.g. insects) and vertebrates (e.g. frogs), in the context of co-evolution. It reviews current knowledge of how echolocation and passive hearing are used by bats to hunt prey in complete darkness. Also it highlights how prey have evolved counter measures to bat echolocation to avoid detection and capture. This includes the whole range of prey responses from being active at times when bats are inactive to the use of acoustic signals of their own to interfere with the echolocation system of bats.

This book synthesises the growing body of evidence which suggests that modern-day birds have evolved from theropod dinosaurs of prehistoric times. The author argues that the ancestor-descendant relationship can also be reversed.

Fang, a bat, is having a tough time getting to sleep. His brother Fink decides he needs a story - a scary story. Now Fang really can't get to sleep. Next, brother Batrick thinks he has the answer - an adventurous pirate story! Fang is so excited that he is even more wide awake. Then sister Batsy offers a dramatic romance story about Cleobatra. That's even worse! How will Fang finally get to sleep? There's one story yet to hear . . . will it be the one that works?