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Urban fruit bats give birth earlier in the season compared to rural fruit bats
BMC Biology(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Background Urbanization is rapidly altering our ecosystem. While most wild species refrain from entering urban habitats, some flourish in cities and adapt to the new opportunities these offer. Urban individuals of various species have been shown to differ in physiology, morphology, and behavior ...
Maya Weinberg +8 more
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Jurnal Veteriner, 2013 The bat is very important for human life, because of their role as pollinator of plants, as a producer oforganic fertilizer, and as food. In Northern Celebes fruit eating bats serve as exotic food, so the presenceof bats were threatened to be extinct ...
Tiltje Andretha Ransaleleh +3 more
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Journal Of Comparative Physiology B, 1996 (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Nitrogen (N) and energy (E) requirements were measured in adult Carollia perspicillata which were fed on four experimental diets. Bats ate 1.3—1.8 times their body mass · day\ and ingested 1339.5—1941.4 kJ · kg\ · day\ .
M, Delorme, D W, Thomas
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Bioscience Journal, 2014 Frugivorous animals may use morphological traits of food items such as size, hardness, shape, color and smell as cues that allow them to assess cost-benefit relationship of foraging activity.
Luís Paulo Pires +2 more
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Osmotic tolerance and cryopreservation of Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) sperm
Theriogenology WildAssisted reproductive technologies will become increasingly important to preserve bat genetics to prevent the extinction of bat species and provide biomedical models for viral and disease research.
Elisha Xiao-Kim +3 more
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Microorganisms, 2020 Obligate hematophagous ectoparasitic flies of the superfamily Hippoboscoidea are distributed worldwide, but their role as vectors and reservoirs of viruses remains understudied.
Andrew J. Bennett +4 more
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Nocturnal scent in a 'bird-fig': A cue to attract bats as additional dispersers?
PLoS ONE, 2019 The plant genus Ficus is a keystone resource in tropical ecoystems. One of the unique features of figs is the diversity of fruit traits, which in many cases match their various dispersers, the so-called fruit syndromes. The classic example of this is the
Simon P Ripperger +6 more
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Phased arrays & the Egyptian fruit bat [PDF]
Lab Animal, 2018 (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) No abstract provided.
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International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2019 Few data are available on the distribution and human infective potential of Cryptosporidium and Enterocytozoon bieneusi genotypes in bats. In this preliminary study, we collected 109 fecal specimens during April–July 2011 from a colony of straw-colored ...
Na Li +4 more
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