In recent years researchers have discovered that bats play key roles in many ecosystems as insect predators, seed dispersers, and pollinators. Bats also display astonishing ecological and evolutionary diversity and serve as important models for studies of a wide variety of topics, including food webs, biogeography, and emerging diseases. In "Bat Ecology," world-renowned bat scholars present an up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative review of this ongoing research. The first part of the book covers the life history and behavioral ecology of bats, from migration to sperm competition...
In recent years researchers have discovered that bats play key roles in many ecosystems as insect predators, seed dispersers, and pollinators. Bats al...
Here is the truth about chiroptera, the only mammals that fly, in a short, well-illustrated account based on solid research but intended for a general reader.
Bats, of which there are about 850 species in the world, are maligned as carriers of rabies (largely untrue) and admired for their biosonar. Heir diversity is reflected in their diets: some eat fruit, some nectar and pollen, other fish, birds, frogs, or other bats. Although most eat insects, it is the three species of blood-feeding vampires which receive most public...
Bats are dangerous to man. Right?
Wrong.
Here is the truth about chiroptera, the only mammals that fly, in a short, well-illustrated ...
"This book is timely, and it provides a well-researched, compact entry to this literature." --Animal Behaviour
Communication in the Chiroptera reviews the available information about communication in chiroptera including brilliant suggestions on the relationship of bat communication to the general subject of communication.
"This book is timely, and it provides a well-researched, compact entry to this literature." --Animal Behaviour
Melville Brockett Fenton Nancy B. Simmons M. Brock Fenton
There are more than 1,300 species of batsor almost a quarter of the world s mammal species. But before you shrink in fear from these furry creatures of the night, consider the bat s fundamental role in our ecosystem. A single brown bat can eat several thousand insects in a night. Bats also pollinate and disperse the seeds for many of the plants we love, from bananas to mangoes and figs. "Bats: A World of Science and Mystery "presents these fascinating nocturnal creatures in a new light. Lush, full-color photographs portray bats in flight, feeding, and mating in views that show them in...
There are more than 1,300 species of batsor almost a quarter of the world s mammal species. But before you shrink in fear from these furry creatures o...
