Do Bats Drink Blood? : : Fascinating Answers to Questions about Bats / / Carol A Butler, Barbara A. Schmidt-French.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Schmidt-French, Barbara A.,; Butler, Carol A,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Animals Q & A
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.) :; 41 illustrations. 25 black and white illustrations and 16 color illustrations

Bat biologist Barbara A. Schmidt-French and writer Carol A. Butler offer a compendium of insightful facts about bats in this accessible and expertly written question-and-answer volume. Numbering more than one thousand species in our world today, bats in the wild are generally unthreatening. Like most other mammals, bats are curious, affectionate, and even playful with one another. Highly beneficial animals, bats are critical to global ecological, economic, and public health. Do Bats Drink Blood? illuminates the role bats play in the ecosystem, their complex social behavior, and how they glide through the night sky using their acute hearingùecholocation skills that have helped in the development of navigational aids for the blind. Personal in voice with the perspective of a skilled bat researcher, this book explores wideranging topics as well as common questions people have about bats, providing a trove of fascinating facts. Featuring rare color and black-and-white photographs, including some by renowned biologist, photographer, and author Merlin Tuttle, Do Bats Drink Blood? provides a comprehensive resource for general readers, students, teachers, zoo and museum enthusiasts, farmers and orchardists, or anyone who may encounter or be fascinated by these extraordinary animals.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- ONE. Bat Basics -- TWO. Bat Bodies -- THREE. Bat Life -- FOUR. Bat Behavior -- FIVE. Bat Love -- SIX. Dangers and Defenses -- SEVEN. Bats and People -- Appendices -- References -- About the Authors -- Index