Just Bats / / M. Brock Fenton.
Bats are dangerous to man. Right?Wrong.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 un...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1983 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Why Bats?
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Flight
- Echolocation
- Seeing and Smelling
- Diet
- Energy and Survival
- Roosts
- Activity
- Migration and Navigation
- Reproduction
- Populations
- Predation and Mortality
- Parasites
- Behaviour
- Public Health
- Keeping Bats Out
- Conservation
- Appendix: Common and Scientific Names
- Sources of More Information
- Index