At one time, there were sixteen bat roosts built in the United States and Europe, of which only two sites now remain — one in Comfort and one in the Florida Keys.

Kitti's hog-nosed bat roosts in the caves of limestone hills, far from the entrance.

Infrared ( IR ) cameras and camcorders are used with an IR illuminator to observe bat emergences and bat behaviour inside and outside roosts.

A huge mound of guano in the cave is evidence of the size of the bat colony that roosts in the cave's high ceilings.

The bat is mostly found in woodlands and always chooses roosts close to water sources such as rivers or canals.

This species appears to prefer caves as roosting sites, but roosts in trees holes, buildings and bat boxes as well.

They occupy the darkest and highest places in the roosts ; when they leave, other bat species move in to take over these vacated spots.

When in their roosts, the Jamaican fruit bat has a reproductive system known as " resource defensive polygyny ".

The island has a large area of primeval forest and supports the last known roosts of the Seychelles sheath-tailed bat Coleura seychellensis.

You'll probably get a ball bat on the head.

In the last of the sixth inning Mike Deegan got up to bat and hit a fast ball over the left fielder's head.

Wicket-keeper Bert Oldfield's skull was fractured by a ball hitting his head ( although the ball had first glanced off the bat and Larwood had an orthodox field ), almost precipitating a riot by the Australian crowd.

Bert Oldfield is hit in the head after Harold Larwood's delivery deflected off his bat.

A youth was seriously injured when struck in the head with a baseball bat wielded by a juvenile.

After trying to fight off the Wolf Man with little success, Dracula attempts to escape and transforms into a bat, but the Wolf Man snares him then grab him and fall down to the sea below. Joan abruptly wakes from her trance, while the boys escape the castle and head to the pier with the Monster in pursuit.

New York-July 4, 1910 George Crawford, a negro waiter had his head beaten in, he got into an argument with a white man over the Johnson Jeffries fight the white man beat him with a bat.

Buggin ' Out starts an argument with Sal, during which Sal threatens to " bash his head " with a baseball bat.

Grab your mitt and a bat and head out to a dusty sandlot for a game of old-fashioned pick-up baseball in Humongous Entertainment's Backyard Baseball.

* January 20 – Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off a live bat thrown at him during a performance in Des Moines, Iowa.

* On July 19, 1974, flawless through 3 innings, Cleveland Indians pitcher Dick Bosman, handling a grounder off the bat of Oakland Athletic Sal Bando, threw over the first baseman's head.

While chasing a rabbit in the fields around the Cambers ' house, Cujo gets his head temporarily stuck in the entrance to a small limestone cave and is bitten on the nose by a bat and infected with rabies.

She faces Cujo down with a bat, breaking it over his head and fatally stabbing him in the eye with the broken end.

The greater bulldog bat is a large bat, often with a combined body and head length of 10. 9 to 12. 7 cm ( 4. 6 to 5 in ).

The wing of the bat is longer than the head and body combined and 65 % of its wingspan is made of the third digit.

It changed from a normal baby to a creature with hooves, a horse's head, bat wings and a forked tail.

The murder generated public outrage over the lenient sentencing the two men originally received in a plea bargain, as the attack, which included blows to the head from a baseball bat, possessed many attributes consistent with hate crimes.

Chin was struck at least four times with the bat, including blows to the head.

Airwolf's insignia patch, as designed by artist Andrew Probert and, as worn by the flight crew members, was a snarling wolf's head with bat wings that appeared to be wearing a sheepskin, complete with the head of the lamb over the wolf's forehead ; a direct play on the saying.

A stainless steel bat ' leth was once said to be able to " literally, take someone's head off " by a police spokesman.

The starting catcher for the second game, Mike Redmond, however, was forced to leave the game in the first inning due to injury after accidentally being struck in the head by the bat of Jim Thome, and Mauer had to take the field as the replacement catcher.

It should be noted that his bat struck only the top padded part of the costume, well above her head position, causing her to lose her balance.

From 1957 on, virtually all cards were posed photographs, either as a head shot or together with a typical piece of equipment like a bat or glove.

Boys no longer bothered learning to bunt and even school kids scorned to `` choke up '' on a bat as Willie Keeler and the famous hitters of another day had done.

The game started again and in the eighth inning Mike Deegan came up to bat.

Deegan dropped, got up, turned and, holding the bat with both hands up against his chest, began to walk slowly out to the mound.

" At bat ", " up ", " up at bat ", and " at the plate " are all phrases describing a batter who is facing the pitcher.

One turn at bat for each team constitutes an inning and nine innings make up a professional game.

The factors cited are: smaller sized ballparks than in the past, " juiced baseballs " implying that the balls are wound tighter thus travel further following contact with the bat, " watered down pitching " implying that lesser quality pitchers are up in the Major Leagues due to too many teams.

Both the team and its fans ( in the poem, about 5, 000 attended the game ) believe they can win " if only " they could somehow get " Mighty Casey " ( Mudville's star player ) up to bat.

: They'd put up even money, now, with Casey at the bat.

Left fielder Matt Holliday then came up to bat and hit a triple, scoring Tulowitzki.

He come to stuff the goddamn bat right up your ass.

In what has come to be known as " the Pine Tar Incident ," umpires discovered illegal placement of pine tar ( more than 18 inches up the handle ) on third baseman George Brett's bat after he had hit a two-run home run off Gossage that put the Royals up 5 – 4 in the top of the 9th. The baseball bat used by Kansas City Royals third baseman George Brett ( baseball ) | George Brett in the Pine Tar Incident on July 24, 1983.

Yepremian attempted to bat the ball out of bounds, but instead batted it back up into the air, and it went right into the arms of Redskins cornerback Mike Bass, who returned the fumble 49 yards for a touchdown to make the score 14-7 with 2: 07 left in the game.

Burton had considered it ridiculous to cast a " bulked-up " ultra-masculine man as Batman, insisting that the Caped Crusader should be an ordinary ( albeit fabulously wealthy ) man who dressed up in an elaborate bat costume to frighten criminals.

He picked up his famous nickname from his friend Bobby Hofman who said he resembled a Hindu yogi whenever he sat around with arms and legs crossed waiting to bat or while looking sad after a losing game.

Opposing fans would often hold up signs bearing asterisks whenever Bonds came up to bat.

He beats up Harry Doolin with a baseball bat, and moves away from Harwich with his mother, and is twice put in a juvenile detention facility.