Do bats drink blood? : fascinating answers to questions about bats / Barbara A. Schmidt-French and Carol A. Butler.

By:

French, Barbara A. Schmidt

Contributor(s):

Butler, Carol A, 1943-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Animal Q & APublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (x, 155 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813548401
0813548403

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Do bats drink blood?DDC classification:

599.4 22

LOC classification:

QL737.C5 F82 2009eb

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Contents:

Bat basics -- Bat bodies -- Bat life -- Bat behavior -- Bat love -- Dangers and defenses -- Bats and people.

Summary: Highly beneficial animals, bats are critical to global ecological, economic, and publichealth. Do Bats Drink Blood? illuminates the role bats play in the ecosystem, their complex social behavior, and how they glide through the night sky using their acute hearingùecholocation skills that have helped in the development of navigational aids for the blind. Personal in voice with the perspective of a skilled bat researcher, this book includes rare color and black and white photographs and explores wideranging topics as well as common questions people have about bats, providing a trove.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-147) and index.

Bat basics -- Bat bodies -- Bat life -- Bat behavior -- Bat love -- Dangers and defenses -- Bats and people.

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Highly beneficial animals, bats are critical to global ecological, economic, and publichealth. Do Bats Drink Blood? illuminates the role bats play in the ecosystem, their complex social behavior, and how they glide through the night sky using their acute hearingùecholocation skills that have helped in the development of navigational aids for the blind. Personal in voice with the perspective of a skilled bat researcher, this book includes rare color and black and white photographs and explores wideranging topics as well as common questions people have about bats, providing a trove.

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