Natural History Of Vampire Bats

Author : Arthur M. Greenhall
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351083368
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural History of Vampire Bats written by Arthur M. Greenhall and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major problem with vampire bats is that whatever information exists is scattered throughout the literature or is not recorded. There are some excellent books on the ecology and biology of bats with very little on vampire bats. This volume fills that gap to provide an in-depth presentation of these unique animals.

Author : David Earl Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vampiro written by David Earl Brown and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoologist David Brown has sifted through the mythology of the vampyre to present a picture of the vampire bat in true-life form. For both bat-specialists and non-biologists alike.

Author : John Edwards Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bats written by John Edwards Hill and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information on all aspects of bat biology, describing their special adaptations to flight and echolocation.

Author : Merlin D. Tuttle
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544382277
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Lives of Bats written by Merlin D. Tuttle and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enamored of bats ever since discovering a colony in a cave as a boy, Tuttle realized how sophisticated and intelligent bats are. He shares research showing that frog-eating bats can identify frogs by their calls, that vampire bats have a social order similar to that of primates, and that bats have remarkable memories. Bats also provide enormous benefits by eating crop pests, pollinating plants, and carrying seeds needed for reforestation; they are essential to a healthy planet.

Author : Arthur Merwin Greenhall
Publisher : CRC PressI Llc
ISBN 13 : 9780849367502
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural History of Vampire Bats written by Arthur Merwin Greenhall and published by CRC PressI Llc. This book was released on 1988 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen contributions study, in an all encompassing manner, the different aspects of the natural history of vampire bats: their biology, economic importance, management, folklore, and gaps in our knowledge. The subject awaits renewed interest and funding--much of which diminished after their impact as a public health problem in Panama and Trinidad was brought under control in the 1930s. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Nick Groom
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300240813
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vampire written by Nick Groom and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori’s publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groom’s detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century, when Enlightenment science collided with Eastern European folklore and apparently verified outbreaks of vampirism, capturing the attention of medical researchers, political commentators, social theorists, theologians, and philosophers. Groom accordingly traces the vampire from its role as a monster embodying humankind’s fears, to that of an unlikely hero for the marginalized and excluded in the twenty-first century. Drawing on literary and artistic representations, as well as medical, forensic, empirical, and sociopolitical perspectives, this rich and eerie history presents the vampire as a strikingly complex being that has been used to express the traumas and contradictions of the human condition.

Author : Bill Schutt
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307381137
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Banquet written by Bill Schutt and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A witty, scientifically accurate, and often intensely creepy exploration of sanguivorous creatures.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Bill Schutt turns whatever fear and disgust you may feel towards nature’s vampires into a healthy respect for evolution’s power to fill every conceivable niche.”—Carl Zimmer, author of Parasite Rex and Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes us on a fascinating voyage into the world of some of nature’s strangest creatures—the sanguivores. Using a sharp eye and mordant wit, Schutt makes a remarkably persuasive case that blood feeders, from bats to bedbugs, are as deserving of our curiosity as warmer and fuzzier species are—and that many of them are even worthy of conservation. Examining the substance that sustains nature’s vampires, Schutt reveals just how little we actually knew about blood until well into the twentieth century. We revisit George Washington on his deathbed to learn how ideas about blood and the supposedly therapeutic value of bloodletting, first devised by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, survived into relatively modern times. Dark Banquet details our dangerous and sometimes deadly encounters with ticks, chiggers, and mites (the ­latter implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder—currently devastating honey bees worldwide). Then there are the truly weird—vampire finches. And if you thought piranha were scary, some people believe that the candiru (or willy fish) is the best reason to avoid swimming in the Amazon. Enlightening and alarming, Dark Banquet peers into a part of the natural world to which we are, through our blood, inextricably linked.

Author : Dennis C. Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vampire Bat written by Dennis C. Turner and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur M. Greenhall
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351091816
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural History of Vampire Bats written by Arthur M. Greenhall and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major problem with vampire bats is that whatever information exists is scattered throughout the literature or is not recorded. There are some excellent books on the ecology and biology of bats with very little on vampire bats. This volume fills that gap to provide an in-depth presentation of these unique animals.

Author : David J. Schmidly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bats of Texas written by David J. Schmidly and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas, home to the world's largest remaining bat cave, Bracken Cave, has the most diverse bat fauna of any state.