| Description |
1 online resource (x, 155 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color). |
| Series |
Animal Q & A : fascinating answers to questions about animals |
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Animal Q & A.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-147) and index. |
| Contents |
Bat basics -- Bat bodies -- Bat life -- Bat behavior -- Bat love -- Dangers and defenses -- Bats and people. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Bats -- Miscellanea.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Mammals.
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NATURE -- Animals -- Mammals.
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Bats. (OCoLC)fst00828821
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SCIENCE / Reference.
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| Genre/Form |
Miscellanea. (OCoLC)fst01423854
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| Added Author |
Butler, Carol A., 1943-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: French, Barbara A. Schmidt. Do bats drink blood? New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009 9780813545882 (DLC) 2008048065 (OCoLC)270231683 |
| ISBN |
9780813548401 (electronic bk.) |
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0813548403 (electronic bk.) |
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