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Author: Sandra Markle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2004-10-01
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 0802777139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the inner and outer workings of bats, discussing their diet, anatomy, and reproduction.
Author: Jorge Ortega
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-06-07
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 331938953X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides new insights into the social behavior of bats - one of the most fascinating topics currently being pursued by researchers. After an introduction reviewing the history of research in bat behavioral ecology, it covers three major themes: bat sociality per se (Part I), bat communication (Part II), and ecological aspects (Part III). Part I offers a concise overview of the social organization and systems of bats, introducing readers to the complexity and dynamics of group structures. Part II is devoted to the innovative field of social communication, focusing on bat songs, dialects and calls. Part III discusses the influence of the environment on bat behavior, particularly with regard to roosting and foraging. This book addresses the needs of researchers working in behavioral sciences, evolution and ecology.
Author: Sandra Markle
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Published: 2013-03-01
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 1590789520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy is the world of bats so varied? The littlest bat is as light as a penny. The biggest bat can have a wingspan as long as a bathtub. Some bats have little flaps on their noses. Others have huge ears. The unique traits of each species help it survive in its special place in nature . . . but how? Using eye-popping photographs of strange bats from around the world, Bats: Biggest! Littlest! feeds young readers' curiosity and is certain to prompt stimulating discussions for days.
Author: David L. Fleitz
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-01-10
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0786486848
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlmost from professional baseball's birth more than 130 years ago, the batting championship has been one of the sport's most highly coveted awards. Since 1949, the Louisville Slugger company has presented the man with the highest batting average at season's end with the Silver Bat Award, a regulation-sized metal bat plated in sterling silver with the winner's name and average engraved upon it. Throughout the years, heated battles for the Silver Bat Award have featured unusual machinations by players, managers, and entire teams, including allegations of cheating, bribery, deliberate misplays, and questionable strategies, and, in one especially bitter campaign, charges of racism. Here are the stories behind these races.
Author: John D. Altringham
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-08-25
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0199207119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBats are highly charismatic and popular animals that are not only fascinating in their own right, but illustrate most of the topical and important concepts and issues in mammalian biology. This book covers the key aspects of bat biology, including evolution, flight, echolocation, hibernation, reproduction, feeding and roosting ecology, social behaviour, migration, population and community ecology, biogeography, and conservation. This new edition is fully updated and greatly expanded throughout, maintaining the depth and scientific rigour of the first edition. It is written with infectious enthusiasm, and beautifully illustrated with drawings and colour photographs.
Author: Arthur Merwin Greenhall
Publisher:
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBanding bats for later recognition is a productive method of studying bats in the wild. The success of a banding program depends on two things: First, if the resulting data are to be useful, banding procedures must be standardized as far as possible; second, interest of the general public must be stimulated, since it is this group that can provide a great number of band returns that would otherwise go unreported.
Author: Karen Taschek
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780826344038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents an introduction to bats, discussing their physical characteristics, feeding behaviors, nocturnal habits, migration, their role in helping ecosystems, and their place in popular culture, along with instructions for building a bat house.
Author: Gerhard Neuweiler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0195099516
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive introduction to the biology of bats offers a summary of the large body of information about bats that the scientific community has amassed over the years. Gerhard Neuweiler, a leading, internationally recognized expert in the field, assesses the most current information available about physiological systems, ecology, and phylogeny of bats, as well as the biology of mammals in general. The book also features a thorough discussion of echolocation, a topic currently under intense scrutiny. The broad physiological perspective will allow the book to accompany regionally specific studies of bats. With examples taken from European and neotropical species, as well as North American species, this useful volume documents what is currently known about this highly successful and fascinating order of mammals.
Author: Neil Middleton
Publisher: Pelagic Publishing Ltd
Published: 2022-07-26
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1784273791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe social calls of bats are an area about which relatively little is known, with more research still required to expand our understanding. However, these calls are increasingly recognised as a useful aid to identification: they appear to be species specific and are indicative of behaviour – as in territorial activity of males during the mating season. Because the gathering and interpretation of bat echolocation data are a matter of course during research, conservation and consultancy, it is a logical progression to build momentum behind the consideration of social calls in mainstream bat-related work. A better understanding of this subject could mean that non-intrusive survey methods are developed, ensuring that what is being observed is, as far as possible, purely natural behaviour. In turn this will contribute to better interpretation and more suitable mitigation, compensation and/or enhancement solutions. The book summarises what is understood so far about social calls of the bat species occurring in Britain and Ireland, and north-west Europe. This new edition has been updated and expanded throughout, now containing: foreword by the bat authority Michel Barataud, author of Acoustic Ecology of European Bats almost double the number of figures and tables as appeared in the first edition completely overhauled call library, all in full spectrum format, with new additional examples three entirely new chapters, covering bat-related acoustics, settings for social interaction, and survey guidelines The material will be useful to people carrying out bat studies, at whatever level and for whatever purpose, and will also encourage others to undertake further research. What's more, social calls are fascinating to listen to: they are, after all, produced with listeners in mind (other bats). In light of this, the book is accompanied by an extensive downloadable library of sound files which offer a unique gateway into the private life of bats.
Author: Charles A. R. Campbell
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Stratford Company
Published: 1925
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBats, Mosquitoes and Dollars. Dragonflies. Bedbugs and Smallpox. Eradication of Smallpox by other means than vaccination, by Dr. Jo A. Wells. Function of the Spleen.
