Book Description
Examines different species of bats, highlighting the way that they use sound to navigate at night.
Author : Joanne Mattern
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 34,57 MB
Release : 2007-01-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780836880427
Examines different species of bats, highlighting the way that they use sound to navigate at night.
Author : Joanne Mattern
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Page : pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
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ISBN : 9780605136878
Describes the specific adaptations that help bats navigate the night.
Author : Thomas H. Kunz
Publisher :
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 22,96 MB
Release : 2009-11-09
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Thomas H. Kunz is a professor of biology and director of the Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology at Boston University. He is the editor of Bat Biology and Conservation and Bat Ecology. Stuart Parsons is a senior lecturer in biological sciences at the University of Auckland, New Zealand -- Jacket.
Author : David Martin Gitlitz
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 32,8 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826328137
Comprehensive history of crypto-Jewish beliefs and social customs.
Author : Joanne Mattern
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 27,75 MB
Release : 2007-01-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0836880420
Examines different species of bats, highlighting the way that they use sound to navigate at night.
Author : Petr Myska
Publisher : Petr Myska, Viva Natura
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 6070073495
The Viva Natura: Field Guide to the Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals of Western Mexico is the first publication of its kind written about the fauna of this region. The purpose of the field guide is to introduce the reader to the wealth of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals of Western Mexico and help identify them in the field. This guide contains the vast majority of the conspicuous animals of the region. In this second edition there are 230 species in this guide and a total of 440 full-color photos. The guide is extremely easy to use. The book is completely bilingual (English and Spanish). The book commences with a brief introduction to the study area, its geography, climate and ecosystems. Chapters dedicated to the four groups of fauna (amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) follow. Each chapter begins with an introduction followed by photographic plates that depict conspicuous species of the study area. All photos were taken by the author himself and with few exceptions, show animals in their natural habitat under completely natural conditions. Each species is described by both its common and scientific names and also by a set of icons that illustrate the species characteristics, such as its habits, diet, preferred habitat, protection status, ect. Color bands on the outer edge of each species plate indicate one of the three principal habitat types (Ocean, Coast and Islands, Freshwater, Forest and Gardens) where this particular species can be observed most frequently. Silhouette thumbs on the plates edges portray a typical member of each group of fauna, making browsing the guide more efficient. The final chapter of the book is dedicated to the conservation issues inside the study area. The book is supported by a companion website where additional texts, photos and also videos and sounds can be found.
Author : R. C. Muirhead-Thomson
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 34,89 MB
Release : 1991-01-28
Category : Science
ISBN :
Light traps; Suction traps; Pheromeno-based and sex lure traps; Light traps versus pheromone traps; Flight traps and interceptor traps; Plant pest responses to visual and olfactory sticky traps; Responses of blood-sucking flies to visual traps; Animal-baited traps and animal adours; Attraction of blowflies and their allies to carrion-based traps.
Author : Charles A Hofling
Publisher : University of Utah Press
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1607819783
A highly valuable dictionary of the Mopan (Mayan) language, providing introductory grammatical description, as well as parts of speech, examples, cross-references, variant forms, homophones, and indexes....
Author : Theodore H. Fleming
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 15,12 MB
Release : 1988-10-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226253282
As dusk settles over the Costa Rican forest, the short-tailed fruit bat, Carollia perspicillata, stirs from its cave roost. Flying out to search for ripe fruit, Carollia returns to a night roost in the forest vegetation to eat. After a few such flights Carollia rests, and the fruits pass through its short digestive tract. The seeds are excreted onto the ground, to be eaten in turn by mice and insects, but a few are pushed into crevices where they await the necessary conditions for germination. In The Short-tailed Fruit Bat, Theodore Fleming examines Carollia's role in the ecology of tropical forests. Based on more than ten years' research, this study provides the most detailed ecological and evolutionary account to date of the life history of a Neotropical mammal and includes striking photographs of the bats in flight.
Author : Jorg-Peter Ewert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1212 pages
File Size : 10,41 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1468444123
This volume presents the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Advances in Vertebrate Neuroethology" held at the University of Kassel, Federal Republic of Germany in August 1981. During the last decade much progress has been made in understanding the neurophysiological bases of behavior in both vertebrates and invertebrates. The reason for this is that a number of new physiological, anatomical, and histochemical techniques have recently been developed for brain research which can now be combined with ethological methods for the analysis of animal behavior to form a new field of research known as "Neuroethology". The term Neuroethology was originally introduced by S.L.Brown and R.W.Hunsperger (1963) in connection with studies on the activation of agonistic behaviors by electrical brain stimulation in cats. Neuroethology was more closely defined by G.Hoyle (1970) in the context of a review on cellular mechanisms underlying behavior of invertebrates. Since the 6th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience held in Toronto in 1976, Neuroethology has become established as a session topic.