ABSTRACT I investigated the scaling of echolocation call parameters (frequency, duration
and repetition rate) in bats in a functional context. Low-duty-cycle bats operate with search …

Flight and echolocation are key characters distinguishing most bats from other mammals.
The number of ecolological niches for bats is limited by the concurent constraints of the …

However, some bats rely partly or entirely on other sensory systems, such as passive
hearing, to detect prey-generated signals (eg, calls and rustling sounds of insects) to find …

Biologists often compare average phenotypes of groups of species defined cladistically or
on behavioral, ecological, or physiological criteria (eg, carnivores vs. herbivores, social vs …

Winner, 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in the Biological Sciences. Professional and
Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers In this unique book …

Aim My goals here are to (1) assess the generality of the island rule–the graded trend from
gigantism in small species to dwarfism in larger species–for mammals and other terrestrial …

This revised edition of a book first published in 2010 supplements the original account of the
116 bat species then known to be found in Southern and Central Africa with an additional …

Spectral and temporal features of echolocation calls emitted by 22 bat species from Italy
(three rhinolophids, 18 vespertilionids and the molossid Tadarida teniotis) are described …

Em decorrência de sua visão adaptada apenas à luz do dia, os humanos primitivos
desenvolveram um temor e um respeito atávicos pelas trevas noturnas, extensivos aos …

Toothed whales (Cetacea, odontoceti) emit sound pulses to probe their surroundings by
active echolocation. Non-invasive, acoustic Dtags were placed on deep-diving Blainville's …