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Bats — Flying Nocturnal Mammals
2000Bats are unique amongst small mammals because they have developed active flight by means of highly specialised extremities, because almost all species are strictly nocturnal, and because they show quite different food habits and foraging strategies. Their unfavourable mass-to-surface area relationship as well as their energy-consuming flight make high ...
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Interception of Flying Insects by Bats
1983Many species of insectivorous bats (Chiroptera) use echolocation to find their prey and to avoid obstacles to their flight (Griffin 1958). An echolocating bat emits sonar sounds in the frequency range from 10 to over 100 kHz and perceives objects from the echoes of these sounds returning to its ears (Novick 1977, Schnitzler and Henson 1980).
James A. Simmons, Shelley A. Kick
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The early bat catches the fly: Daylight foraging in soprano pipistrelles
Mammalian Biology, 2011Laboratorio di Ecologia Applicata, Dipartimento Ar.Bo.Pa.Ve., Facolta di Agraria, Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, I-80055 Portici, Napoli, Italy School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UG, United Kingdom Forestry and Conservation, I-03043 Cassino, Frosinone, Italy Dipartimento di Entomologia e Zoologia Agraria ...
RUSSO, DANILO +3 more
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Leading-Edge Vortex Improves Lift in Slow-Flying Bats
Science, 2008Staying aloft when hovering and flying slowly is demanding. According to quasi–steady-state aerodynamic theory, slow-flying vertebrates should not be able to generate enough lift to remain aloft. Therefore, unsteady aerodynamic mechanisms to enhance lift production have been proposed.
F T, Muijres +5 more
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Bat-deafness in day-flying moths (Lepidoptera, Notodontidae, Dioptinae)
Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology, 1997Assuming that bat-detection is the primary function of moth ears, the ears of moths that are no longer exposed to bats should be deaf to echolocation call frequencies. To test this, we compared the auditory threshold curves of 7 species of Venezuelan day-flying moths (Notodontidae: Dioptinae) to those of 12 sympatric species of nocturnal moths ...
Fullard, J.H. +3 more
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Distributional Evidence for Cospeciation between Neotropical Bats and their Bat Fly Ectoparasites
Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 1998(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Distributional evidence bearing on cospeciation of New World bats (superfamily Noctilionoidea) and associated bat flies (Diptera: Streblidae) was analyzed and revealed substantial phylogenetic structure, especially when we focused on "normal" host associations and encoded the data set hierarchically ...
Patterson, Bruce D. +2 more
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Bat Bot (B2), a biologically inspired flying machine
2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2016It is challenging to analyze the aerial locomotion of bats because of the complicated and intricate relationship between their morphology and flight capabilities. Developing a biologically inspired bat robot would yield insight into how bats control their body attitude and position through the complex interaction of nonlinear forces (e.g., aerodynamic)
Ramezani, Alireza +3 more
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Walking like caterpillars, flying like bats—pinniped locomotion
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 2012Utilisation of the limbs and the kind of locomotion on land and in water differ fundamentally between pinniped families, especially between Phocinae and Otariidae. On land, members of the latter group are, as is the case in all terrestrial mammals, able to support their bodies with their limbs, in contrast to the Phocinae.
Carolin Kuhn, Eberhard Frey
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Fur increases the parasite drag for flying bats
Canadian Journal of Zoology, 1995We measured the drag (in grams) generated by air flowing at 5.02 m/s over blank plates and test plates to which bat skin and fur was glued, comparing drag values when air flowed with and against the "set" of the fur. Our samples included 37 specimens representing 27 species.
Z. Hassanloo +3 more
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AbstractGlobal changes have increased the risk of emerging infectious diseases, which can be prevented or mitigated by studying host–parasite interactions, among other measures. Bats and their ectoparasitic flies of the families Streblidae and Nycteribiidae are an excellent study model but, so far, our knowledge has been restricted to fragmented ...
Natalya Zapata‐Mesa +10 more
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