Human Exposure to Novel Bartonella Species from Contact with Fruit Bats
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018 Twice a year in southwestern Nigeria, during a traditional bat festival, community participants enter designated caves to capture bats, which are then consumed for food or traded. We investigated the presence of Bartonella species in Egyptian fruit bats (
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Fruit bats adjust their decision-making process according to environmental dynamics
BMC Biology, 2023 One of the main functions of behavioral plasticity lies in the ability to contend with dynamic environments. Indeed, while numerous studies have shown that animals adapt their behavior to the environment, how they adapt their latent learning and decision
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Early experience affects foraging behavior of wild fruit bats more than their original behavioral predispositions [PDF]
eLifeThere are immense consistent inter-individual differences in animal behavior. While many studies have documented such behavioral differences, often referred to as individual personalities, little research has focused on the underlying causes and on ...
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Isolation of a Zoonotic Pathogen Kluyvera ascorbata from Egyptian Fruit-Bat Rousettus aegyptiacus
Journal of Veterinary Medical Science, 2010 (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) The Egyptian fruit-bat Rousettus aegyptiacus which had been raised at the private commercial aquarium in Seoul, Korea for indoor exhibition was found dead and submitted to College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University for postmortem examination.
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Induced bacterial sickness causes inflammation but not blood oxidative stress in Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus). [PDF]
Conserv Physiol, 2022 Bats are particularly interesting vertebrates in their response to pathogens owing to extremes in terms of tolerance and resistance. Oxidation is often a by-product of processes involved in the acute phase response, which may result in antimicrobial or ...
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Elevated vitamin D levels in diurnally-active female fruit bats [PDF]
HeliyonAnimal species have evolved to enhance their survival by focusing their temporal activity on specific parts of the diurnal-nocturnal cycle. Various factors, including inter-specific competition and anti-predator behavior, as well as anthropogenic effects
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Wireless recording of the calls of Rousettus aegyptiacus and their reproduction using electrostatic transducers [PDF]
, 2010 Bats are capable of imaging their surroundings in great detail using echolocation. To apply similar methods to human engineering systems requires the capability to measure and recreate the signals used, and to understand the processing applied to ...
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Marburg Virus Persistence on Fruit as a Plausible Route of Bat to Primate Filovirus Transmission
Viruses, 2021 Marburg virus (MARV), the causative agent of Marburg virus disease, emerges sporadically in sub-Saharan Africa and is often fatal in humas. The natural reservoir for this zoonotic virus is the frugivorous Egyptian rousette bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus ...
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Structure, Dynamics, and Neural Codes in a Bat Social Network. [PDF]
Ann N Y Acad SciWe studied group formation in highly social Egyptian fruit bats housed in a laboratory cave. Using advanced tracking, videography, and wireless single‐unit neural recordings, we showed that social networks evolved dynamically and then stabilized, with social hierarchy shaping behaviors such as food access and sleeping arrangements.
Ray S, Las L, Ulanovsky N.
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Bats experience age-related hearing loss (presbycusis)
Life Science Alliance, 2023 Bats exhibited age-related hearing loss. Bats are exposed to immense conspecific noise, but the frequency-dependent hearing loss was not correlated to the noise.
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