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Tuttle, Merlin D.
Bats.
Bats -- Research -- Anecdotes.
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The secret lives of bats : my adventures with the world's most misunderstood mammals / Merlin Tuttle.
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Tuttle, Merlin D., author.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Subjects
Tuttle, Merlin D.
Bats.
Bats -- Research -- Anecdotes.
ISBN:
9780544382275
0544382277
Description:
xvi, 271 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents:
Preface: A city that loves bats -- Teenage discoveries -- Saving the gray myotis -- Tracking bat nightlife -- Investigating vampire bats -- Bats through a camera's eye -- Discovering frog-eating bats -- Finding America's most elusive bats -- Cacti that compete for bats -- Free-tailed bat caves and crop pests -- African adventures -- Bat-loving monks, tigers, and poachers -- Mysteries of bat-guiding flowers -- Bat foresters -- Fruit grower complaints -- A national park for bats -- Epilogue: Hope for the future.
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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.
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