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Bats of the forest steppe of Sumy Oblast: old records and new findings [PDF]

Theriologia Ukrainica, 2018
Generalized information on 9 bat species of the south of Sumy Oblast is presented based on own materials (29 specimens of 7 bat species from 3 localities) and on data from literature sources and catalogues of zoological collections (123 specimens of 9 ...
V. Parkhomenko
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Knowledge, perceptions, and attitudes by residents in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan in connection with bats

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2022
Background Fruit bats play an important role in pollination and seed dispersal, and their conservation is important to maintain the productivity of some crops and natural ecosystems. The objective of this study was to investigate the knowledge, attitudes,
Attaullah, Shahzad Ali, Arshad Javid, Muhammad Imran, Tahir Mehmood Khan, Kendra Phelps, Kevin J. Olival   +6 more
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Bats, Pathogens, and Species Richness

Pathogens, 2021
Bats carry many viruses, but this is not sufficient to threaten humans. Viruses must mutate to generate the ability to transfer to humans. A key factor is the diversity of species.
Frédéric Dutheil, Maëlys Clinchamps, Jean-Baptiste Bouillon-Minois   +2 more
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“What is it like to be a bat?”—a pathway to the answer from the integrated information theory [PDF]

, 2017
What does it feel like to be a bat? Is conscious experience of echolocation closer to that of vision or audition? Or do bats process echolocation nonconsciously, such that they do not feel anything about echolocation?
Naotsugu, Tsuchiya
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Fish and amphibians as bat predators [PDF]

, 2015
Although bats (Chiroptera) belong to the most diverse mammalian orders, study of diversity of their natural predators has been seriously neglected for a long time.
Mikula, Peter
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Florida’s Bats: Tricolored Bat

EDIS, 2017
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Holly K. Ober, Terry Doonan, Emily Evans
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Antioxidant Defenses in the Brains of Bats during Hibernation. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Hibernation is a strategy used by some mammals to survive a cold winter. Small hibernating mammals, such as squirrels and hamsters, use species- and tissue-specific antioxidant defenses to cope with oxidative insults during hibernation.
Qiuyuan Yin, Hanxiao Ge, Chen-Chong Liao, Di Liu, Shuyi Zhang, Yi-Hsuan Pan   +5 more
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The difference in the composition of gut microbiota is greater among bats of different phylogenies than among those with different dietary habits

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023
Bats have a very long evolutionary history and are highly differentiated in their physiological functions. Results of recent studies suggest effects of some host factors (e.g., phylogeny and dietary habit) on their gut microbiota.
Min Guo, Siwei Xie, Junhua Wang, Yuzhi Zhang, Xiangyang He, Pengfei Luo, Jin Deng, Jin Deng, Chunhui Zhou, Jiao Qin, Chen Huang, Libiao Zhang   +11 more
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Predictors and immunological correlates of sublethal mercury exposure in vampire bats [PDF]

, 2017
Mercury (Hg) is a pervasive heavy metal that often enters the environment from anthropogenic sources such as gold mining and agriculture. Chronic exposure to Hg can impair immune function, reducing the ability of animals to resist or recover from ...
Altizer, Sonia, Becker, Daniel J., Bentz, Alexandra B., Chumchal, Matthew M., Czirják, Gábor Á., Platt, Steven G., Rainwater, Thomas R., Streicker, Daniel G.   +7 more
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Isolation of Angola-like Marburg virus from Egyptian rousette bats from West Africa

Nature Communications, 2020
Marburg virus (MARV) causes sporadic outbreaks of severe Marburg virus disease (MVD). Most MVD outbreaks originated in East Africa and field studies in East Africa, South Africa, Zambia, and Gabon identified the Egyptian rousette bat (ERB; Rousettus ...
B. Amman, B. Bird, Ibrahim A. Bakarr, J. Bangura, A. Schuh, J. Johnny, Tara K Sealy, I. Conteh, Alusine H. Koroma, I. Foday, E. Amara, Abdulai A. Bangura, A. Gbakima, A. Tremeau-Bravard, M. Belaganahalli, Jasjeet Dhanota, Andrew Chow, Victoria Ontiveros, Alexandra A. Gibson, J. Turay, K. Patel, James C. Graziano, Camilla M Bangura, Emmanuel S. Kamanda, Augustus Osborne, Emmanuel Saidu, J. Musa, Doris F. Bangura, Samuel Maxwell Tom Williams, R. Wadsworth, M. Turay, Lavalie Edwin, Vanessa Mereweather-Thompson, Dickson Kargbo, Fatmata V. Bairoh, Marilyn C. Kanu, W. Robert, Victor Lungai, R. G. Guetiya Wadoum, Moinya Coomber, O. Kanu, A. Jambai, S. Kamara, Celine H Taboy, T. Singh, J. Mazet, S. Nichol, T. Goldstein, J. Towner, Aiah Lebbie   +49 more
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