A miscellany of bats - Fenton, M. Brock 1943-; Rydell, Jens 1953- (Pelagic Publishing, 2023)
Preface ; Acknowledgements; 1. Introducing bats ; Wings and size ; Blind as a bat ; Catching and identifying bats ; Marking and tagging ; Brock's initiation ; Jens' start ; Box: What on Earth?; 2. Bat wings and flight ; Wing anatomy ; White wings ; How fast do bats fly? ; Drinking ; Flying antics ; Box: Colour in bats; 3. Seeing with sound ; The perils of generalization ; Basic echolocation ; Why echolocate? ; Echolocation and the faces of bats ; Box: Beam control and bite power; 4. Echolocation: a window onto bat behaviour ; Biologists as eavesdroppers on bats ; Insect prey ; Bat communication ; Air traffic control ; Box: Echolocation and foraging; 5. What bats eat, part 1 ; Learning how much a bat consumes ; Some bats eat birds ; Versatility ; What insects do bats eat? ; Specialized hunting ; Trawling ; Box: Diets of bats; 6. What bats eat, part 2 ; Fruit-eating species ; Bats and flowers ; Box: The curious case of bananas; 7. Vampire bats; 8. Where bats occur and where they roost ; Temperature ; Bat roosts ; Box: Patterning in bats ; Lingering challenges ; Bats up north ; Box: Bat boxes; 9. Social lives of bats ; Reproduction ; What is a colony of bats? ; Food availability and social patterns ; Box: Observational learning; 10. How bats use space ; Box: Bats get around; 11. Threats to bats ; Predators ; Mishaps ; Parasites ; Wind turbines ; Light pollution ; A world without bats? ; Global change ; Box: Keeping bats away; 12. Bats and people ; Attitudes towards bats ; Bats and disease ; Bats as symbols; 13. Bats as beings ; A last word to the bats; Cast of bats ; Notes ; Index