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EDIS, 1969 This document discusses representative species of the bats that occur in Florida and provides a simple key for their identification. This document is Fact Sheet WEC 186, one of a series of the Department of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida ...
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Lab Animal, 2010 Though not as common as small rodents in laboratory settings, bats are being increasingly used in research studies. Knowledge of proper blood sampling techniques is essential for care and management of bats.
David Eshar, Maya Weinberg
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Novel hemotropic mycoplasmas are widespread and genetically diverse in vampire bats [PDF]
, 2017 Bats (Order: Chiroptera) have been widely studied as reservoir hosts for viruses of concern for human and animal health. However, whether bats are equally competent hosts of non-viral pathogens such as bacteria remains an important open question. Here,
Altizer, S.M. +7 more
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Making a bat: The developmental basis of bat evolution [PDF]
Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2020 (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Abstract Bats are incredibly diverse, both morphologically and taxonomically. Bats are the only mammalian group to have achieved powered flight, an adaptation that is hypothesized to have allowed them to colonize various and diverse ecological niches.
Neal Anthwal +6 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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Bat selfies: photographic surveys of flying bats
Mammalian Biology, 2022 AbstractThe recent pandemic and other environmental concerns have resulted in restrictions on research and surveys involving capture and handling bats. While acoustic surveys have been widely used as an alternative survey method, in this study, we show how photographic surveys can offer an important contribution to study and survey bats.
Rydell, Jens +6 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 ...
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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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Advances in Differential Equations, 2020 According to the report presented by the World Health Organization, a new member of viruses, namely, coronavirus, shortly 2019-nCoV, which arised in Wuhan, China, on January 7, 2020, has been introduced to the literature.
Wei Gao, H. Baskonus, Li Shi
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