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First Evidence of Fallen Fruit Feeding by Bats Revealed by Camera Traps in a Tropical Dry Forest

Biotropica, Volume 57, Issue 5, September 2025.
Ground foraging among volant frugivores is an underappreciated aspect of behavioral flexibility. Here we report the first evidence of fruit bats feeding on fallen fruit, captured by camera traps in a Costa Rican tropical dry forest. These observations provide insight into the flexibility and mechanisms of coexistence among frugivores.
Allegra N. DePasquale, Theo Batchelor, Blanca Cejalvo Insausti, Eduardo José Artavia Durán, Omer Nevo, Amanda D. Melin   +5 more
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Bats (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) in the urbanized area in South of Brazil - doi: 10.4025/actascibiolsci.v34i2.8783

Acta Scientiarum: Biological Sciences, 2011
The present study aimed to inventory of bats species present in an urban area, located within the main campus of the State University of Maringá, northwestern Paraná State, and to present data on the diet, reproduction, and activity times of the captured
Bruno Prone, Cibele Maria Vianna Zanon, Evanilde Benedito   +2 more
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Morphological and Histological Variations of the Reproductive Organs During the Annual Cycle in a Neotropical Bat: Peters' Ghost‐Faced Bat Mormoops megalophylla (Chiroptera: Mormoopidae)

Journal of Morphology, Volume 286, Issue 7, July 2025.
Mormoops megalophylla exhibits a seasonal monoestrous reproductive pattern. Spermatogenesis and folliculogenesis occurs from October to December, mating takes place in November–December, gestation lasts from December to May, and lactation extends from June to September.
Gihovani Ademir Samano‐Barbosa, Ixchel Rojas‐Martínez, Sergio Leonardo Porto‐Ramírez, Fernando Salgado‐Mejia, Ahiezer Rodríguez‐Tobón, Arturo Salame‐Méndez, Edith Arenas‐Ríos, Luis Manuel Guevara‐Chumacero, Ricardo López‐Wilchis   +8 more
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Nutritional content of bat-consumed fruits in a forest fragment in Southern Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Biology
The State Park Mata dos Godoy has 42 identified bat species, among which 21 are frugivorous and belong to the Phyllostomidae family. Current study investigated the concentrations of carbohydrate, lipid and protein in fruits consumed by Artibeus lituratus,
C. B. Batista, N. R. Reis, M. I. Rezende
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Diversidad de frutos que consumen tres especies de murciélagos (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) en la selva lacandona, Chiapas, México

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2007
ESTE ESTUDIO AMPLÍA EL CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS HÁBITOS ALIMENTARIOS DE 3 ESPECIES DE MURCIÉLAGOS FRUGÍVOROS COMODISPERSORES DE SEMILLAS EN 2 LOCALIDADES DE LA SELVA ALTA PERENNIFOLIA EN LA ZONA SUR DE LA RESERVA DE LA BIOSFERA DE MONTES AZULES (REBIMA), Y ...
LIVIA LEÓN PANIAGUA, CONSUELO LORENZO, EDUARDO NARANJO, ALINKA OLEA WAGNER, DAVID ORTÍZ   +4 more
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Model‐based ordination for phenological studies: From controlling sampling bias to inferring temporal associations

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 7, Page 1542-1546, July 2025.
Abstract Willig et al. (Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 15, 868–885, 2024) cautioned that unequal sampling effort and pseudoreplication can bias the characterisation of species phenology using circular statistics. Borrowing concepts from rarefaction, they proposed bootstrapping to control for time‐varying marginal totals that arise from unequal ...
Hao Ran Lai
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Relating Diet and Capture Time Between two Species of Frugivorous Bats (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae, Stenodermatinae)
Relacionando dieta e horários de captura entre duas espécies de morcegos frugívoros (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae, Stenodermatinae)

Semina: Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, 2012
Artibeus lituratus (Olfers, 1818) and Platyrrhinus lineatus (Geoffroy, 1810) are phyllostomid bats that often coexist in the same local and consume the same feed. Therefore, the aim of this study was to obtain data about feeding habits of the two species,
Eduardo Ribeiro Sartore, Nelio Roberto dos Reis   +1 more
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Living Away From Specialized Pollinators: The Pollination System of Ceiba pentandra in the Yucatan Peninsula

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 2, February 2025.
The pollination system of C. pentandra was addressed. This system was highly generalized. ABSTRACT Plant‐pollinator systems can exist along the gradient from extreme specialization to extreme generalization. Theoretical work predicts that high pollinator reliability may lead to specialized pollination systems, while pollinator unpredictability may ...
Henry Dzul‐Cauich, Kathryn E. Stoner, Carlos N. Ibarra‐Cerdeña, Miguel A. Munguía‐Rosas   +3 more
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Diversidad de frutos que consumen tres especies de murciélagos (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) en la selva lacandona, Chiapas, México Diversity of fruits consumed by three species of bats (Chiroptera:Phyllostomidae) in the Lacandona rainforest, Chiapas, Mexico

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2007
Este estudio amplía el conocimiento de los hábitos alimentarios de 3 especies de murciélagos frugívoros como dispersores de semillas en 2 localidades de la selva alta perennifolia en la zona sur de la Reserva de la Biosfera de Montes Azules (REBIMA), y ...
Alinka Olea-Wagner, Consuelo Lorenzo, Eduardo Naranjo, David Ortiz, Livia León-Paniagua   +4 more
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Testing the Effectiveness of Synthetic Chemical Lures to Increase Fruit Bat‐Mediated Seed Dispersal in a Tropical Forest

Biotropica, Volume 57, Issue 1, January 2025.
This study investigates the use of synthetic chemical lures to attract fruit‐eating bats and enhance seed dispersal in northeastern Costa Rica. The lures significantly increased the capture of Carollia spp., a key seed disperser, and boosted seed rain.
Mariana Gelambi, Yoselyn Pamela Coto‐Pereira, Estefania Morales‐M, Susan R. Whitehead   +3 more
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