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- What a group of bizarre-looking bats can tell us about the . . .
But one group of bats in Central America and the Caribbean, known as New World leaf-nosed bats, have evolved a wide range of diets, and have the skulls and teeth to match For example, some species in the group have evolved very long snouts to feed on flower nectar, whereas others have evolved very flat faces to eat large fruit
- Virome analysis for identification of novel mammalian viruses . . .
Bats belong to the order Chiroptera, and are the second largest order of mammals after rodents This order includes 19 families and 962 species distributed across the globe 1 More than 130 kinds
- The state of the bats in North America - nabatmonitoring. org
The North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) contributed to a manuscript recently published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences that documents a comprehensive assessment of North American bats Brian Reichert (USGS) co-authored the publication that drew upon an expert elicitation to evaluate the conservation status of 153 bat species and their threats in Canada, the United
- Rodents: Current Biology - Cell Press
To a first approximation, all mammals are rodents Over 40% of mammal species are in the order Rodentia While rodents are often thought of as just mice and rats, the more than 2000 species in this order encompass a staggering diversity of form and behavior (Figure 1) There are pocket gophers, beavers, jerboas, guinea pigs, springhares, chinchillas, and porcupines Rodents are found on all
- The Big Bat Year: A Quest to See the World’s Bats
Nils spent time in the Pacific, where many islands have endemic species (The Solomon Islands, for instance, have 40 bat species) He spent 16 days in the Phillipines, where he saw the world’s largest bat – Acerodon jubatus – as well as spectacular bat caves He observed spectacular yellow-wing bats using building roofs as perches to hunt
- Females are not smaller than males in most mammal species
The idea that male mammals are larger than females has persisted for more than a century, but an analysis of body mass and length in 400 mammal species shows it isn’t the norm
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