Author: Gerrit Smith MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Twenty New American Bats
Author: Gerrit Smith MillerThree New American Bats
Author: James Abram Garfield RehnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bats
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
American bats of the subfamily Emballonurinae, vol. 20
Author: SanbornBats of the United States and Canada
Author: Michael J. HarveyPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421403005
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Honorable Mention, Popular Science, 2012 PROSE Awards, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers The only mammals capable of true flight, bats are among the world’s most fascinating creatures. This accessible guide to the forty-seven species of bats found in the United States and Canada captures and explains the amazing diversity of these marvels of evolution. A wide variety of bat species live in the United States and Canada, ranging from the California leaf-nosed bat to the Florida bonneted bat, from the eastern small-footed bat to the northern long-eared bat. The authors provide an overview of bat classification, biology, feeding behavior, habitats, migration, and reproduction. They discuss the ever-increasing danger bats face from destruction of habitat, wind turbines, chemical toxicants, and devastating diseases like white-nose syndrome, which is killing millions of cave bats in North America. Illustrated species accounts include range maps and useful identification tips. Written by three of the world’s leading bat experts and featuring J. Scott Altenbach's stunning photographs, this fact-filled and easy-to-use book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of bats in the U.S. and Canada.
New Bats from Tropical America, with Note on Species of Otopterus. Bulletin of the AMNH ; V. 20, Article 20
Author: A Synopsis of the American Bats of the Genus Pipistrellus
Author: Walter Woelber DalquestPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
This is a biological study book on the different species of the canyon bat (Parastrellus hesperus). Also known as the western pipistrelle, it is a species of vesper bat and is found in Mexico and in the western United States. It is the 1950 publication of E. Raymond Hall and Walter W. Dalquest from the University of Kansas.
The American Bats of the Genera Myotis and Pizonyx
Author: Gerrit Smith Miller (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Myotis
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
Bats of the Republic
Author: Zachary Thomas DodsonPublisher: Doubleday
ISBN: 0385539843
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
"Archetypes of the cowboy story, tropes drawn from sci-fi, love letters, diaries, confessions all abound in this relentlessly engaging tale. Dodson has quite brilliantly exposed the gears and cogs whirring in the novelist’s imagination. It is a mad and beautiful thing.” --Keith Donohue, The Washington Post Winner of Best of Region for the Southwest in PRINT’s 2016 Regional Design Awards Bats of the Republic is an illuminated novel of adventure, featuring hand-drawn maps and natural history illustrations, subversive pamphlets and science-fictional diagrams, and even a nineteenth-century novel-within-a-novel—an intrigue wrapped in innovative design. In 1843, fragile naturalist Zadock Thomas must leave his beloved in Chicago to deliver a secret letter to an infamous general on the front lines of the war over Texas. The fate of the volatile republic, along with Zadock’s future, depends on his mission. When a cloud of bats leads him off the trail, he happens upon something impossible... Three hundred years later, the world has collapsed and the remnants of humanity cling to a strange society of paranoia. Zeke Thomas has inherited a sealed envelope from his grandfather, an esteemed senator. When that letter goes missing, Zeke engages a fomenting rebellion that could free him—if it doesn’t destroy his relationship, his family legacy, and the entire republic first. As their stories overlap and history itself begins to unravel, a war in time erupts between a lost civilization, a forgotten future, and the chaos of the wild. Bats of the Republic is a masterful novel of adventure and science fiction, of elliptical history and dystopian struggle, and, at its riveting core, of love.
America's Neighborhood Bats
Author: Merlin D. TuttlePublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292712805
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Since its first publication in 1988, America's Neighborhood Bats has changed the way we look at bats by underscoring their harmless and beneficial nature. In this second revised edition, Merlin Tuttle offers bat aficionados the most up-to-date bat facts, including a wealth of new information on bat house design and current threats to bat survival.
Phyllostomid Bats
Author: Theodore H FlemingPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022669612X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
With more than two hundred species distributed from California through Texas and across most of mainland Mexico, Central and South America, and islands in the Caribbean Sea, the Phyllostomidae bat family (American leaf-nosed bats) is one of the world’s most diverse mammalian families. From an insectivorous ancestor, species living today, over about 30 million years, have evolved a hyper-diverse range of diets, from blood or small vertebrates, to consuming nectar, pollen, and fruit. Phyllostomid plant-visiting species are responsible for pollinating more than five hundred species of neotropical shrubs, trees, vines, and epiphytes—many of which are economically and ecologically important—and they also disperse the seeds of at least another five hundred plant species. Fruit-eating and seed-dispersing members of this family thus play a crucial role in the regeneration of neotropical forests, and the fruit eaters are among the most abundant mammals in these habitats. Coauthored by leading experts in the field and synthesizing the latest advances in molecular biology and ecological methods, Phyllostomid Bats is the first overview in more than forty years of the evolution of the many morphological, behavioral, physiological, and ecological adaptations in this family. Featuring abundant illustrations as well as details on the current conservation status of phyllostomid species, it is both a comprehensive reference for these ecologically vital creatures and a fascinating exploration of the evolutionary process of adaptive radiation.