bats: biology, behavior and conservation

ANIMAL SCIENCE, ISSUES AND PROFESSIONS
BATS: BIOLOGY, BEHAVIOR
AND CONSERVATION
JAKOB L. ZUPAN
AND
SARA L. MLAKAR
EDITORS
Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
New York
CONTENTS
Preface
Chapter 1
.Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
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Chiroptophobia: Rabies, SARS,
and other Bat-Related Human Pathogens
Dennis J. Cleri, Anthony J. Ricketti and John R. Vernaleo
Foraging Behaviour of the Short-Nosed
Fruit Bat, Cynopterus Sphinx
Vadamalai Elangovan, Yuvana Satya Priya
and Ganapathy Marimuthu
Reproductive Biology of Male Bats: Anatomy,
Physiology and Endocrinology
Regiana Lucia Oliveira and Cleida Aparecida Oliveira
Foraging Ecology of Pteropodid Bats:
Pollination and Seed Dispersal
Hanumanthan Raghuram, Natarajan Singaravelan,
Parthasarathy Thiruchenthil Nathan,
Koilmani Emmanuvel Rajan, and Ganapathy Marimuthu
Chapter 5
Bats and Rabies in Brazil
Karin Correa Scheffer, Rodrigo Fernandes de Barros,
Samira M. Achkar, Andrea de Cassia Rodrigues da Silva,
Luciana Botelho Chaves, Graciane Maria Medeiros Caporale,
Rafael de Novaes Oliveira, Ana Elena Boamorte da Costa,
Keila Iamamoto, Willian de Oliveira Fahl,
and Pedro Carnieli Junior
Chapter 6
Postnatal Development, Wing Morphology and Fligh
Performance of the Short-Nosed Fruit Bat, Cynopterus Sphinx
Vadamalai Elangovan, Yuvana Satya Priya and
Ganapathy Marimuthu
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Contents
Chapter 7
Hematophagous Bats
Karin Correa Scheffer, Rodrigo Fernandes de Barros,
Alexandre Mendes Batista, Carla Isabel Macedo,
Samira M. Achkar, Keila Iamamoto, Juliana Galera Castilho,
Willian de Oliveira Fahl, Rafael de Novaes Oliveira,
Ana Elena Boamorte da Costa, and Pedro Carnieli Junior
Chapter 8
Regulators in Epidydimal Maturation and Prolonged Storage
Sperm Processes in the Bat Corynorhinus Mexicanus
E. Arenas-Rios, M. A. Leon-Galvdn, R. Lopez-Wilchis,
and A. Rosado
Chapter 9
Metabolic Adaptations in Frugivorous Bats
Andre Otavio Peres Protzek and Eliana de Cassia Pinheiro
Chapter 10
The Contribution of Fossils to the Reconstruction
of Bat Population Dynamics
Juan Manuel Lopez-Garcia, Ivan Horacek
and Paloma Sevilla
Chapter 11
Index
Mechanisms of Prolonged Sperm Storage in Female Bats
Amitabh Krishna and Vikas Kumar Roy
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