Book Description:
Bats are flying mammals in the order Chiroptera. The forelimbs of bats are webbed and developed as wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight. In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the biology, behavior and conservation of bats. Topics discussed in this compilation include: chiroptophobia (the fear of bats); the reproductive biology of male bats; bats and rabies in Brazil; postnatal development, wing morphology and flight performance of the short-nosed fruit bat; hematophagous bats; prolonged sperm storage in bats and metabolic adaptations in frugivorous bats.

Table of Contents:
Preface

Chiroptophobia: Rabies, SARS, and other Bat-Related Human Pathogens
(Dennis J. Cleri, Anthony J. Ricketti, John R. Vernaleo, St. Francis Medical Center, Trenton, New Jersey, USA, and others)pp.1-90

Foraging Behaviour of the Short-Nosed Fruit Bat, Cynopterus sphinx ^
(Vadamalai Elangovan, Yuvana Satya Priya, Ganapathy Marimuthu, Department of Applied Animal Sciences, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Vidya Vihar, Rai Bareily Road, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, and others)pp.91-134

Reproductive Biology of Male Bats: Anatomy, Physiology and Endocrinology
(Regiana Lúcia Oliveira, Cleida Aparecida Oliveira, Department of Morphology, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil)pp.135-176

Foraging Ecology of Pteropodid Bats: Pollination and Seed Dispersal ^
(Hanumanthan Raghuram, Natarajan Singaravelan, Parthasarathy Thiruchenthil Nathan, Koilmani Emmanuvel Rajan, Ganapathy Marimuthu, Department of Zoology, The American College, Madurai, India, and others) pp.177-188

Bats and Rabies in Brazil
(Karin Corrêa Scheffer, Rodrigo Fernandes de Barros, Samira M. Achkar, Andréa de Cássia Rodrigues da Silva, Luciana Botelho Chaves, Graciane Maria Medeiros Caporale, Rafael de Novaes Oliveira, Ana Elena Boamorte da Costa, Keila Iamamoto, Willian de Oliveira Fahl, Pedro Carnieli Júnior, Instituto Pasteur de São Paulo, Cerqueira César, São Paulo, SP, Brazil) pp.189-220

Postnatal Development, Wing Morphology and Flight Performance of the Short-Nosed Fruit Bat, Cynopterus sphinx
(Vadamalai Elangovan, Yuvana Satya Priya, Ganapathy Marimuthu, Department of Applied Animal Sciences, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Vidya Vihar, Rai Bareily Road, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, and others)pp.221-252

Hematophagous Bats
(Karin Corrêa Scheffer, Rodrigo Fernandes de Barros, Alexandre Mendes Batista, Carla Isabel Macedo, Samira M. Achkar, Keila Iamamoto, Juliana Galera Castilho, Willian de Oliveira Fahl, Rafael de Novaes Oliveira, Ana Elena Boamorte da Costa, Pedro Carnieli Júnior, Instituto Pasteur de São Paulo, São Paulo-SP, Brazil) pp.253-274

Regulators in Epidydimal Maturation and Prolonged Storage Sperm Processes in The Bat Corynorhinus Mexicanus
(E. Arenas-Ríos, M.A. León-Galván, R. López-Wilchis, A. Rosado, Departamento de Biología de la Reproducción and Biología, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa, Mexico)pp.275-298

Metabolic Adaptations in Frugivorous Bats
(André Otavio Peres Protzek, Eliana de Cássia Pinheiro, Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biology, UNICAMP, State University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil, and others)pp.299-314

The Contribution of Fossils to the Reconstruction of Bat Population Dynamics ^
(Juan Manuel López-García, Ivan Horacek, Paloma Sevilla, Institut de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES), Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain, and others)pp.315-326

Mechanisms of Prolonged Sperm Storage in Female Bats
(Amitabh Krishna, Vikas Kumar Roy, Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India)pp.327-336

Index pp.337-356