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Brandon Collins struggles to get himself out of a submission hold applied by Franco D'Angelo as Referee Travis Truborn looks on during their Heavyweight Wrestling Match on November 11, 2007 at Fight Night at the Gym in Arlington, Texas. Collins went…

A motocross biker tries to free his bike during the annual Weston beach race in Weston-Super-Mare, southwest England, 21 October 2007. One thousand two hundred bikers competed in the event, which was celebrating its 25th anniversary.

Pepperdine's Jason Walberg, #12, gouges the eyes of Brigham Young University's Jonathan Tavernari, #45, during the first half of the game. No foul was called on the play. Although Tavernari missed the basket immediately following the eye gouge, he…

Written by Christian Ziegler

caption: These tiny bats have evolved a most interesting roosting strategy: equipped with little suckers on their hand and feet, they sucktion-glue themselves into rolled up banana leaves to spend their day save and dry.

caption: This little insect eating bat (Micronycertis sp.) is roosting in the space provided by a large fallen log.

caption: A rather unusual kind of roost is the one of Lophostoma sivicula. Males of this species chew a large cavity into arboreal termite nests (which are hard as concrete) and offer these roosts to females, which then join the males harem.

caption: Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama have spend many decades understanding the biology of bat species on Barro Colorado Island and continue to do so. Sergio Estrada, here seen releasing a bat after…

caption: A very original way to make a living can be observed in Trachops cirrosus, the frog eating bat. This species locates male frogs by their mating call, and grabs them is a surprise attack.

caption: Nectar-eating bats such as these Glossophaga sp. bats here approaching a large tree flower play an important role as pollinators for many trees and shrubs in tropical forests.