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The Short-Tailed Fruit Bat
Theodore H. Fleming
其他書名
A Study in Plant-Animal Interactions
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 1988-10-11
主題
Nature / Animals / Mammals
Science / General
Science / Life Sciences / Biology
Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / Mammals
ISBN
0226253287
9780226253282
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=H0yMGYzlrTAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.