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Absence of lunar phobia in European swarming vespertilionid bats [PDF]
Scientific Reports“Lunar phobia” in bats has been widely discussed since its description in tropical bats in 1978. The phenomenon has been frequently contested and supported and was first reported in European bats in 2020.
Grzegorz Apoznański +7 more
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Lunar phobia in phyllostomid bats at La Ceiba, Tuxpan, Veracruz [PDF]
Ecosistemas y Recursos Agropecuarios, 2018 The term lunar phobia is used to explain the behavior that some nocturnal animals have to avoid periods with greater moonlight intensity. The aim was to determine the effect of the brightness of the new moon and the full moon on the richness, abundance ...
Juan Manuel Pech Canché +4 more
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Better in the dark: two Mediterranean amphibians synchronize reproduction with moonlit nights [PDF]
Web Ecology, 2013 In Amphibians, both positive and negative correlations between activity and full moon phase have been observed. In this study, we present data for two anuran species (Hyla intermedia and Rana dalmatina) studied in a hilly Mediterranean area of central ...
L. Vignoli, L. Luiselli
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Lunar phobia in the greater fishing bat Noctilio leporinus (Chiroptera: Noctilionidae)
Revista de Biología Tropical, 2006 The nightly activity patterns of Noctilio leporinus, a piscivorous neotropical bat, were documented by visual observation over one lunar cycle at a large dock in Golfito, Costa Rica.
Karrigan S Börk
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Effects of moonlight on the capturability of frugivorous phyllostomid bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) at different time scales [PDF]
Zoologia (Curitiba), 2013 Some bat species seem to be lunar phobic, i.e., they avoid flying in bright areas or during bright periods of the night; however, the evidence is still controversial.
Marco A. R. Mello +2 more
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Biota Colombiana, 2019 We present an annotated checklist of the species of Bombycidae, Saturniidae and Sphingidae collected in the Utría National Natural Park, Chocó, Colombia. We used mercury light trap for 31 days in four different habitats.
Liliana Prada Lara +4 more
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Endangered Species Research, 2014 Nocturnal mammals can be challenging to survey and, especially for many species that live in dense forest habitats, limited information is available on densities and distributions.
KAI Nekaris +4 more
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Zoologia (Curitiba), 2011 Understanding what influences the activity of organisms is important for both ecological understanding and species conservation. Using data from 2,707 camera trap days distributed across 24 forest sites, we present quantitative analyses of the activity ...
Fernanda Michalski, Darren Norris
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Iheringia: Série Zoologia, 2007 A influência da luz da lua no padrão de atividade de morcegos já foi documentada em algumas espécies. Geralmente os morcegos reagem ao aumento da iluminação reduzindo o uso de espaços abertos e restringindo a atividade de forrageio ou a duração do ...
Carlos E. L. Esbérard
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Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2010 Se analiza la influencia de la velocidad del viento y de la intensidad de la luz lunar en la actividad de 4 especies de murciélagos filostómidos de la región Mena Nizanda, Juchitán, Oaxaca.
Antonio Santos-Moreno +2 more
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