The Short-tailed Fruit Bat: A Study in Plant-Animal Interactions (Wildlife Behaviour & Ecology) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Short-tailed Fruit Bat: A Study in Plant-Animal Interactions (Wildlife Behaviour & Ecology) Book

As dusk settles over the Costa Rican forest, the short-tailed fruit bat, Carollia perspicillata, stirs from its cave roost. Flying out to search for ripe fruit, Carollia returns to a night roost in the forest vegetation to eat. After a few such flights Carollia rests, and the fruits pass through its short digestive tract. The seeds are excreted onto the ground, to be eaten in turn by mice and insects, but a few are pushed into crevices where they await the necessary conditions for germination. In The Short-tailed Fruit Bat, Theodore Fleming examines Carollia's role in the ecology of tropical forests. Based on more than ten years' research, this study provides the most detailed ecological and evolutionary account to date of the life history of a Neotropical mammal and includes striking photographs of the bats in flight. Read More

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  • 0226253287
  • 9780226253282
  • Fleming
  • 1 November 1988
  • Chicago University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 380
  • 2nd
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