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| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Introducing Bats: Their Anatomy, Origins and Flight | 1 |
| The Names of Bats | ||
| Anatomy | ||
| The Origins of Bats | ||
| The Size of Bats | ||
| Flight | ||
| 2 | Studying Bats | 21 |
| Catching Bats | ||
| Identifying Bats | ||
| Marking Bats | ||
| Other Approaches | ||
| 3 | Echolocation: The Sonar Sight of Bats | 37 |
| The Echolocators | ||
| The History of Echolocation in Bats | ||
| Humans Discover Echolocation | ||
| Echolocation in Bats | ||
| Producing and Transmitting Echolocation Calls | ||
| Echolocation Signals | ||
| Receiving and Analyzing Echoes | ||
| The Advantages of Echolocation | ||
| The Disadvantages of Echolocation | ||
| Switching Off Echolocation | ||
| 4 | Other Senses, Orientation and Migration | 53 |
| The Other Senses | ||
| Orientation | ||
| Migration | ||
| 5 | What Bats Eat | 61 |
| Food Processing | ||
| Animals as Bat Food | ||
| Plants as Bat Food | ||
| Finding Food | ||
| Water and Waste | ||
| 6 | Where Bats Roost | 77 |
| Foliage | ||
| Hollows | ||
| Crevices | ||
| Special Roosting Habits | ||
| Variations in Roosting Behavior | ||
| Bats and Temperature Regulation | ||
| Hibernation | ||
| Aestivation | ||
| 7 | Social Organization, Family Life and Communication | 93 |
| Roost Associations Among Bats | ||
| Reproduction | ||
| The Mating Game | ||
| The Young | ||
| Communication | ||
| 8 | Bat Populations: Production, Predators and Parasites | 107 |
| Accidents and Problems of the Young | ||
| Predators of Bats | ||
| Parasites | ||
| Covivants | ||
| Parasites, Diseases and Survival | ||
| 9 | And Now Some Bats | 117 |
| Old World Fruit Bats, The Pteropodidae | ||
| Mouse-Tailed Bats, The Rhinopomatidae | ||
| Hog-Nosed Bats, The Craseonycteridae | ||
| False Vampire Bats, The Megadermatidae | ||
| Slit-Faced Bats, The Nycteridae | ||
| Horseshoe Bats, The Rhinolophidae | ||
| Bulldog Bats, The Noctilionidae | ||
| Short-Tailed Bats, The Mystacinidae | ||
| Mustached Bats, The Mormoopidae | ||
| New World Leaf-Nosed Bats, The Phyllostomidae | ||
| Plain-Nosed Bats, The Vespertilionidae | ||
| Free-Tailed Bats, The Molossidae | ||
| 10 | Vampire Bats | 149 |
| Origins | ||
| Blood as Food | ||
| The Hunt | ||
| Risks and Social Support | ||
| 11 | Bats and Public Health | 157 |
| Rabies | ||
| Histoplasmosis | ||
| Bats: Hazard or Nuisance? | ||
| Bat Control | ||
| 12 | Bat Conservation | 167 |
| Habitat Destruction | ||
| Human Attitudes | ||
| Human Consumption | ||
| The Science and Education Market | ||
| Human Recreation: Caving | ||
| Pesticides | ||
| The Danger of Labels | ||
| Protecting Bats | ||
| Three Steps | ||
| 13 | Images of Bats | 179 |
| Appendix: Common and Scientific Names of Bats in Text | 189 | |
| Bibliography | 195 | |
| Index | 201 |
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