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Excepting myotis capaccinii, the wings' contribution to take off performance does not correlate with foraging ecology in six species of insectivorous bat
... Take-off in bats is separated into two distinct phases: an initial jump and a subsequent wing powered acceleration. Here, using footage from a high-speed camera, the first comparative study of the performance during the ...
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Novel Astroviruses in Insectivorous Bats
... healthy insectivorous bats found in Hong Kong, in particular, bats belonging to the genera Miniopterus and ...the bat astroviruses form distinct phylo- genetic clusters in the genus Mamastrovirus within the ...
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Isolation of a novel Rhabdovirus from an insectivorous bat (Pipistrellus kuhlii) in Italy
... an insectivorous bat (Pipistrellus kuhlii) in Northern Italy, which was tentatively named Vaprio virus (VAPV) according to the town where the infected bat was ...
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Excepting Myotis capaccinii, the wings' contribution to take-off performance does not correlate with foraging ecology in six species of insectivorous bat
... Take-off in bats is separated into two distinct phases: an initial jump and a subsequent wing powered acceleration. Here, using footage from a high-speed camera, the first comparative study of the performance during the ...
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Wake structure and kinematics in two insectivorous bats
... We selected the point of the wingbeat cycle at which wing extension was greatest, typically close to the middle of the downstroke. Half wingspan (b) was defined as the maximum distance between the point midway between ...
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Structure of an Ensemble of Insectivorous Bats
... partitioning despite the similarities. Saunders and Barclay (1992) examined the same phenomenon using capture data and found similar results. Bumrungsri et al. (2007) cited similar patterns in frugivorous species. ...
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Babesia vesperuginis in insectivorous bats from China
... Babesia vesperuginis in bats was first described in bats from Italy, and later also found in bats from other parts of Europe (UK, Austria, Czech Republic, Romania) and South America (Colombia) [5, 7–9]. So far, B. ...
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Aspects of the ecology of insectivorous bats (Chiroptera) in temperate deciduous woodlands
... Nocturnal Pipistrellus pipistrellus activity and insect availability from the suction trap, Long Itchington Wood, 1995.. Suction trap numbers from all four woodlands 1995 significantly c[r] ...
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Echolocation call structure and intensity in five species of insectivorous bats
... gleaning bat, taking prey from surfaces, and this is reflected by its wing morphology and flight characteristics (Norberg, 1976), its diet (Swift and Racey, 1983; Rydell, 1989) and its foraging behaviour (Anderson ...
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Metagenomic Analysis of Viruses from Bat Fecal Samples Reveals Many Novel Viruses in Insectivorous Bats in China
... circovirus-related sequences were found in stool samples from humans, wild chimpanzees, and bats (15, 24, 25), muscle tissue of hoofed farm animals and chickens from Pakistan and Nigeria (25), and water samples (36). In ...
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Surviving cave bats: auditory and behavioural defences in the Australian noctuid moth, Speiredonia spectans
... Many moths possess ears that enable them to detect the echolocation calls of hunting insectivorous bats and avoid predation (Roeder, 1967). This now classic neuroethological story was originally set in the open ...
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The importance of lakes for bat conservation in Amazonian rainforests : an assessment using autonomous recorders
... than in terra firme forest. During both seasons, the total number of feeding buzzes recorded in our study was four times higher over the lakes than within the forest (Fig. 2). This adds to previous evidence that most ...
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Comparative Analysis of Twelve Genomes of Three Novel Group 2c and Group 2d Coronaviruses Reveals Unique Group and Subgroup Features
... HKU4), bat-CoV HKU5 (putative group 2c), and bat-CoV HKU9 (putative group 2d)—were ...in bat-CoV HKU9 implies that these two group 2d-specific genes are under high selective pressure and hence are ...
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A citizen-based platform reveals the distribution of functional groups inside a large city from the Southern Hemisphere: e-Bird and the urban birds of Santiago (Central Chile)
... The highest species richness among Santiago’s trophic guilds occurs in the insectivorous, followed by omnivor- ous, granivorous, and carnivorous. By considering the number of registered individuals as a proxy of ...
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Small mammals at forest plantations in the Jeseníky Mts. (Czech Republic)
... Small mammal community was studied at Fagus sylvatica plantations in 2007–2011. The animals were captured in snap traps once a year in autumn in the course of three consecutive nights. The abundance, species composition, ...
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Determinants and Developmental Consequences of Organic Contaminant Uptake in Nestling Insectivorous Birds
... Eggs of these three passerine species breeding in Point Pelee National Park and adjacent areas have detectable contaminant burdens. The burdens exhibit a pattern that differs from expectations based on the proportions ...
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BATS: CARRIERS OF ZOONOTIC VIRAL AND EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
... vampire bat), Diphylla ecaudata (hairy-legged vampire bat) and Desmodus rotundus (vampire bat) have been reported to be involved in rabies ...(vampire bat) is important in rabies transmission ...
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Australian Bat Lyssavirus
... antibodies and there should be concern that positive reactions, particularly those of low titre (e.g. less than 1:10) are due to non-specific virus neutralizing substances in serum. Results could also reflect the ...
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Bat Astrovirus in Mozambique
... High genetic diversity was detected among AstVs se- quences obtained from Mozambican bats (pairwise dis- tance up to 45%), without strong support for host family or species restriction (Fig. 1 and Additional file 2 for ...
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Diet related factors in the conservation of kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology at Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand
... 2003). Insectivorous species are particularly challenging as they often consume large quantities of invertebrates that are difficult to ...Being insectivorous, nocturnal and cryptic, the identification of ...
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