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Bat Peka Peka Recovery Plan Mystacina

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Author : Janice Molloy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995

Bat Peka Peka Recovery Plan Mystacina written by Janice Molloy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Bats categories.

Island Bats

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Author : Theodore H. Fleming
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-03-15

Island Bats written by Theodore H. Fleming and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-15 with Science categories.

The second largest order of mammals, Chiroptera comprises more than one thousand species of bats. Because of their mobility, bats are often the only native mammals on isolated oceanic islands, where more than half of all bat species live. These island bats represent an evolutionarily distinctive and ecologically significant part of the earth’s biological diversity. Island Bats is the first book to focus solely on the evolution, ecology, and conservation of bats living in the world’s island ecosystems. Among other topics, the contributors to this volume examine how the earth’s history has affected the evolution of island bats, investigate how bat populations are affected by volcanic eruptions and hurricanes, and explore the threat of extinction from human disturbance. Geographically diverse, the volume includes studies of the islands of the Caribbean, the Western Indian Ocean, Micronesia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and New Zealand. With its wealth of information from long-term studies, Island Bats provides timely and valuable information about how this fauna has evolved and how it can be conserved.

Microchiropteran Bats

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Author : Anthony Michael Hutson
language : en
Publisher: IUCN
Release Date : 2001

Microchiropteran Bats written by Anthony Michael Hutson and has been published by IUCN this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Bats categories.

Species Conservation

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Author : Jamieson A. Copsey
language : en
Publisher: Ecology, Biodiversity and Cons
Release Date : 2018-06-28

Species Conservation written by Jamieson A. Copsey and has been published by Ecology, Biodiversity and Cons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-28 with Nature categories.

Biodiversity studied by researching island species recovery and management.

The Handbook Of New Zealand Mammals

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Author : Carolyn King
language : en
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Release Date : 2021-01-20

The Handbook Of New Zealand Mammals written by Carolyn King and has been published by CSIRO PUBLISHING this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-20 with Science categories.

The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals is the only definitive reference on all the land-breeding mammals recorded in the New Zealand region (including the New Zealand sector of Antarctica). It lists 65 species, including native and exotic, wild and feral, living and extinct, residents, vagrants and failed introductions. It describes their history, biology and ecology, and brings together comprehensive and detailed information gathered from widely scattered or previously unpublished sources. The description of each species is arranged under standardised headings for easy reference. Because the only native land-breeding mammals in New Zealand are bats and seals, the great majority of the modern mammal fauna comprises introduced species, whose arrival has had profound effects both for themselves and for the native fauna and flora. The book details changes in numbers and distribution for the native species, and for the arrivals it summarises changes in habitat, diet, numbers and size in comparison with their ancestral stocks, and some of the problems they present to resource managers. For this third edition, the text and references have been completely updated and reorganised into Family chapters. The colour section includes 14 pages of artwork showing all the species described and their main variations, plus two pages of maps.

Biomechanics Of Terrestrial Locomotion In Bats

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Author : Daniel Kenneth Riskin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006

Biomechanics Of Terrestrial Locomotion In Bats written by Daniel Kenneth Riskin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.

This dissertation concerns the way in which bats move on the ground. Chapter one is a literature review on the subject, from an evolutionary perspective, that includes contributions from this thesis. In chapter two, I test an hypothesis frequently used to explain the poor crawling abilities of bats compared with mammals that do not fly. According to that hypothesis, most bats shuffle awkwardly because their hindlimbs are too long and slender to support their body weights, but vampire bats walk well because their hindlimbs are more robust than those of other bats. I used force plates to test a prediction of the hindlimb-strength hypothesis that the peak hindlimb forces of walking vampire bats should be greater than the forces exerted by the legs of poorly crawling bats. I found that shuffling bats (Pteronotus parnellii) exert larger hindlimb forces than walking vampire bats do (Desmodus rotundus, Diaemus youngi). Additionally, I used a simple engineering model of bone stress to demonstrate that the hindlimbs of vampire bats fall within the range of shapes seen in bats that do not walk well. These results do not support the hindlimb-strength hypothesis. In chapter three, I describe the running gait of Common Vampire Bats (D. rotundus). At low speeds, these bats use a lateral sequence walking gait, similar to those of other tetrapods, but switch at higher speeds to a bounding gait that is powered by the forelimbs. This gait is unique to vampire bats, and appears to be independently evolved form the running gaits of other tetrapods. In chapter four, I compare the kinematics of locomotion in Common Vampire Bats to those of another terrestrially adept species, New Zealand short-tailed bats (Mystacina tuberculata). The latter use a lateral sequence walk similar to that of D. rotundus and other tetrapods, but do not perform the bounding run. Using force plates to examine the kinetics of their single kinematic gait, I found that the gait of M. tuberculata is a kinetically run-like, and does not shift from a kinetic walk to kinetic run with increased speed the way the gaits of some other animals do. (Abstract).