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How bats detect flying insects

Physics Today, 1980
In the process of evolution every possible niche for survival has been exploited by some animal species. Whenever there is a biological area that produces a surplus it becomes advantageous for some species to adapt itself to make use of that surplus; many species have thus become endowed with highly specialized skills that have given them exclusive ...
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The function of daylight flying in British bats

Journal of Zoology, 1990
A national survey of the incidence of daylight flying of bats in mainland Britain was organized from September 1985 until March 1988. A total of 420 records of daylight flying were received by 1 May 1988. One hundred and forty‐four reports were from winter (October to March), 271 from summer (April to September) and five were undated.
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Bats — Flying Nocturnal Mammals

2000
Bats 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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Fur increases the parasite drag for flying bats

Canadian Journal of Zoology, 1995
We 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, M. B. Fenton, J. D. DeLaurier, J. L. Eger   +3 more
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BatFly: A database of Neotropical bat–fly interactions

Ecology
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, Sebastián Montoya‐Bustamante, Juliana Hoyos, Dioscoro de la Peña, Jorge Galindo‐González, Julio Chacón-Pacheco, Jesús Ballesteros Correa, Maria Raquel Pastrana‐Montiel, Gustavo Graciolli, Marcelo R. Nogueira, Marco A. R. Mello   +10 more
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Obstacle avoidance by flying bats: The cries of bats

Journal of Experimental Zoology, 1942
Robert Galambos, Donald R. Griffin
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The receiving beam of freely flying bats

Sound facilitates an abundance of signal types with varying complexity, information density and transmission range and it is an essential modality used by animals across taxa for communication, navigation and survival. Utilization of acoustic information is arguable at its most extreme for echolocating animals.
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Bat Flies of the Family Streblidae (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea) Host Relatives of Medically and Agriculturally Important “Bat-Associated” Viruses

Viruses, 2021
María Magdalena Ramírez Martínez, Andrew J Bennett, Tony L Goldberg   +2 more
exaly  

Detection and Phylogenetic Analysis of Bartonella Species From Bat Flies on Eastern Bent-Wing Bats (Miniopterus fuliginosus) in Japan

Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2020
Ai Takano, Shingo Sato, Ken Maeda
exaly  

Bat-Ectoparasitic Fly Relationships in a Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest in Brazil

Parasitology Research, 2021
Eder Barbier, Enrico Bernard, Fabio Falcao   +2 more
exaly