A Miscellany of Bats

A Miscellany of Bats
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Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface: Bats and Jens
Nomenclature
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
	Flight antics
	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 183
	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
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