Miscellany of Bats
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Miscellany of Bats
Fenton, M. Brock; Rydell, Jens
Pelagic Publishing
01/2023
256
Mole
Inglês
9781784272944
15 a 20 dias
836
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Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introducing bats
Wings and size
Blind as a bat
Catching and identifying bats
Marking and tagging
Brock's initiation
Jens' start
Box: What on Earth?
2. Bat wings and flight
Wing anatomy
White wings
How fast do bats fly?
Drinking
Flying antics
Box: Colour in bats
3. Seeing with sound
The perils of generalization
Basic echolocation
Why echolocate?
Echolocation and the faces of bats
Box: Beam control and bite power
4. Echolocation: a window onto bat behaviour
Biologists as eavesdroppers on bats
Insect prey
Bat communication
Air traffic control
Box: Echolocation and foraging
5. What bats eat, part 1
Learning how much a bat consumes
Some bats eat birds
Versatility
What insects do bats eat?
Specialized hunting
Trawling
Box: Diets of bats
6. What bats eat, part 2
Fruit-eating species
Bats and flowers
Box: The curious case of bananas
7. Vampire bats
8. Where bats occur and where they roost
Temperature
Bat roosts
Box: Patterning in bats
Lingering challenges
Bats up north
Box: Bat boxes
9. Social lives of bats
Reproduction
What is a colony of bats?
Food availability and social patterns
Box: Observational learning
10. How bats use space
Box: Bats get around
11. Threats to bats
Predators
Mishaps
Parasites
Wind turbines
Light pollution
A world without bats?
Global change
Box: Keeping bats away
12. Bats and people
Attitudes towards bats
Bats and disease
Bats as symbols
13. Bats as beings
A last word to the bats
Cast of bats
Notes
Index
Acknowledgements
1. Introducing bats
Wings and size
Blind as a bat
Catching and identifying bats
Marking and tagging
Brock's initiation
Jens' start
Box: What on Earth?
2. Bat wings and flight
Wing anatomy
White wings
How fast do bats fly?
Drinking
Flying antics
Box: Colour in bats
3. Seeing with sound
The perils of generalization
Basic echolocation
Why echolocate?
Echolocation and the faces of bats
Box: Beam control and bite power
4. Echolocation: a window onto bat behaviour
Biologists as eavesdroppers on bats
Insect prey
Bat communication
Air traffic control
Box: Echolocation and foraging
5. What bats eat, part 1
Learning how much a bat consumes
Some bats eat birds
Versatility
What insects do bats eat?
Specialized hunting
Trawling
Box: Diets of bats
6. What bats eat, part 2
Fruit-eating species
Bats and flowers
Box: The curious case of bananas
7. Vampire bats
8. Where bats occur and where they roost
Temperature
Bat roosts
Box: Patterning in bats
Lingering challenges
Bats up north
Box: Bat boxes
9. Social lives of bats
Reproduction
What is a colony of bats?
Food availability and social patterns
Box: Observational learning
10. How bats use space
Box: Bats get around
11. Threats to bats
Predators
Mishaps
Parasites
Wind turbines
Light pollution
A world without bats?
Global change
Box: Keeping bats away
12. Bats and people
Attitudes towards bats
Bats and disease
Bats as symbols
13. Bats as beings
A last word to the bats
Cast of bats
Notes
Index
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bats; chiroptera
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introducing bats
Wings and size
Blind as a bat
Catching and identifying bats
Marking and tagging
Brock's initiation
Jens' start
Box: What on Earth?
2. Bat wings and flight
Wing anatomy
White wings
How fast do bats fly?
Drinking
Flying antics
Box: Colour in bats
3. Seeing with sound
The perils of generalization
Basic echolocation
Why echolocate?
Echolocation and the faces of bats
Box: Beam control and bite power
4. Echolocation: a window onto bat behaviour
Biologists as eavesdroppers on bats
Insect prey
Bat communication
Air traffic control
Box: Echolocation and foraging
5. What bats eat, part 1
Learning how much a bat consumes
Some bats eat birds
Versatility
What insects do bats eat?
Specialized hunting
Trawling
Box: Diets of bats
6. What bats eat, part 2
Fruit-eating species
Bats and flowers
Box: The curious case of bananas
7. Vampire bats
8. Where bats occur and where they roost
Temperature
Bat roosts
Box: Patterning in bats
Lingering challenges
Bats up north
Box: Bat boxes
9. Social lives of bats
Reproduction
What is a colony of bats?
Food availability and social patterns
Box: Observational learning
10. How bats use space
Box: Bats get around
11. Threats to bats
Predators
Mishaps
Parasites
Wind turbines
Light pollution
A world without bats?
Global change
Box: Keeping bats away
12. Bats and people
Attitudes towards bats
Bats and disease
Bats as symbols
13. Bats as beings
A last word to the bats
Cast of bats
Notes
Index
Acknowledgements
1. Introducing bats
Wings and size
Blind as a bat
Catching and identifying bats
Marking and tagging
Brock's initiation
Jens' start
Box: What on Earth?
2. Bat wings and flight
Wing anatomy
White wings
How fast do bats fly?
Drinking
Flying antics
Box: Colour in bats
3. Seeing with sound
The perils of generalization
Basic echolocation
Why echolocate?
Echolocation and the faces of bats
Box: Beam control and bite power
4. Echolocation: a window onto bat behaviour
Biologists as eavesdroppers on bats
Insect prey
Bat communication
Air traffic control
Box: Echolocation and foraging
5. What bats eat, part 1
Learning how much a bat consumes
Some bats eat birds
Versatility
What insects do bats eat?
Specialized hunting
Trawling
Box: Diets of bats
6. What bats eat, part 2
Fruit-eating species
Bats and flowers
Box: The curious case of bananas
7. Vampire bats
8. Where bats occur and where they roost
Temperature
Bat roosts
Box: Patterning in bats
Lingering challenges
Bats up north
Box: Bat boxes
9. Social lives of bats
Reproduction
What is a colony of bats?
Food availability and social patterns
Box: Observational learning
10. How bats use space
Box: Bats get around
11. Threats to bats
Predators
Mishaps
Parasites
Wind turbines
Light pollution
A world without bats?
Global change
Box: Keeping bats away
12. Bats and people
Attitudes towards bats
Bats and disease
Bats as symbols
13. Bats as beings
A last word to the bats
Cast of bats
Notes
Index
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