The proboscis bat (Rhynchonycteris naso) is a bat species from South and Central America. Other common names include Long-nosed proboscis bat, sharp-nosed bat, Brazilian long-nosed bat and river bat in English, and murciélago narizón in Spanish. It is monotypic within its genus.
Peechelba is a small town in north eastern Victoria, Australia. The town is located in the Rural City of Wangaratta and the Shire of Moira local government area between Wangaratta and Yarrawonga and 277 kilometres (172 mi) north west of the state capital, Melbourne. The town is home to a nature reserve, not far from
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Cardamine micranthera is a rare species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common names small-anthered bittercress and streambank bittercress. It is endemic to the Piedmont region around the border between Virginia and North Carolina, particularly in the Dan River watershed. It is in decline mainly because its habitat has been disturbed
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The Colorado Plateau, also known as the Colorado Plateau Province, is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. This province covers an area of 336,700 km2 (130,000 mi2) within western Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, southern and eastern Utah, northern Arizona, and
Eagle Peak is a mountain in the U.S. state of Alaska, located in Chugach State Park in Anchorage Municipality. Elevation 6,955 ft (2,120 m) Coordinates 61°10′01″N 149°16′01″W The peak is named after the Eagle River. The peak is visible from Anchorage on clear days.
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The Hustler River is a river of Minnesota. Hustler Lake is a small body of water on the river and is one terminus of the Sioux–Hustler Trail.
An Indian reservation is an area of land tenure governed by a federally recognized Native American tribal nation under the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, rather than by the government of the state in which it is located. The 326 Indian reservations in the United States are associated with specific Native American nations, often on
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As you possibly already know, the Earth’s surface is constantly eroded by flowing water. After rivers erode rock and soil, they deposit (drop) their load downstream. This process is known as deposition. Rocks and soils deposited by streams are known as “sediments”. Rivers and streams deposit sediment where the speed of the water current decreases. In
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In Pakistan, the Left Bank Outfall Drain is a drainage channel. The canal, which was built between 1987 and 1997 with World Bank funding, collects saline water, industrial effluents, and Indus river basin floodwater from more than two million hectares of land in the Nara river basin of Shaheed Benazirabad, Sanghar, Mirpurkhas, and Badin districts
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Berlin is Germany’s capital and largest city in terms of both area and population. Berlin, one of Germany’s sixteen component states, is surrounded by the State of Brandenburg and is next to Potsdam, the capital of Brandenburg. Berlin’s urban area, with a population of roughly 4.5 million people, is Germany’s second most populated urban region