Bats of southern and central Africa
Subtitle: a biogeographic and taxonomic synthesis
By: Ara Monadjem ... [et al.].
Publisher: Wits University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Johannesburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9781868145089
Subjects: Bats
Description: "[The book] includes chapters on the evolution, biogeography, ecology and echolocation of bats, and provides accounts for ... 116 bat species ... The species accounts provide descriptions, measurements, and diagnostic characters, as well as detailed information on the distribution, habitat, roosting habits, foraging ecology, and reproduction of each species."--Back cover. Geographic area covered in the book: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe and the southern half of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 576-585) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Geographical scope ; Classification and taxonomy ; Conservation status; title: Museum collections and pioneering researchers. Researcher gallery ; The value of specimens ; Chiroptera collections; title: Bat biology. Migration ; Torpor and hibernation ; Reproduction ; Predation ; Foraging ecology ; Roosting habits; title: Biogeography. Geology ; Geomorphology ; Climates past and present ; Vegetation; title: Echolocation. Echolocation systems ; Types of bat echolocation pulses ; Ecology of bat echolocation and flight ; Recording echolocation calls ; Spectrum analysis ; Bat detectors ; Spectrograms and echolocation; title: Species accounts. Suborder Pteropodiformes ; Suborder Vespertilioniformes; title: List of specimens.