"colony" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Some areas have found 10 to 15 bats in a maternity colony with a single mature male.
- Primary roosts typically support more than 30 bats at a time and are used most often by a maternity colony.
- The number of roosts used and home range occupied by a maternity colony can vary widely.
- The nursing females form maternity colonies of 20-40 individuals in one tent roost.
- These maternity colonies roost in foliage and are usually exposed to more light than any other bat species.
- After the breeding season, pregnant females separate themselves into maternity colonies.
- The young clings to the mother for about a week, after which they remain in the maternity colony until they are able to fly.
- Females gather in maternity colonies of 40 to 80 bats during June and July.
- The state Health Department's expert on bats said the house had become home to a "maternity colony."
- Three maternity colonies have been identified which have at least eighty breeding females.
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