Australian Bats
Title | Australian Bats PDF eBook |
Author | Sue Churchill |
Publisher | Allen & Unwin |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2009-02-01 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1741766974 |
An identification guide to all 75 known species of Australian bats. Species are illustrated with colour photographs, and each species account includes a detailed description of the bat, measurements, a distribution map and notes on where they live, what they eat, and how they find food and reproduce. Australian Bats also provides general information on these fascinating animals: their evolution, why they hang upside down, roosting and reproduction, echolocation, and how to catch, survey and care for bats, including health hazards for carers. An identification key to the bat families is included, with important features illustrated by line drawings and photographs, as well as illustrated keys to all the species.
A Natural History of Australian Bats
Title | A Natural History of Australian Bats PDF eBook |
Author | Greg Richards |
Publisher | CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0643103740 |
This is the first book on Australian bats that focuses on their natural history. It describes the bioregions, describe what bats do in them and the ecosystem services that they provide. The book features a description of the 80.90 species in Australia, a section on bat myths and stories and rock art from indigenous Australians.
Flying Foxes
Title | Flying Foxes PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie S. Hall |
Publisher | UNSW Press |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780868405612 |
Sometimes kept as family pets, flying foxes are much beloved in Australia. This work covers issues such as descriptions of Australia's 13 species of flying foxes and blossom bats, their physiology of flight, ecology, diet and behaviour, and management of populations.
The Biology and Conservation of Australasian Bats
Title | The Biology and Conservation of Australasian Bats PDF eBook |
Author | Bradley Law |
Publisher | Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales |
Pages | 509 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0980327245 |
This book, the Biology and Conservation of Australasian Bats, follows from the successful 3-day forum of the same name held in April 2007 at the Australian Museum. The forum was organised jointly by the Royal Zoological Society of NSW and the Australasian Bat Society.
A Natural History of Australian Bats
Title | A Natural History of Australian Bats PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Parish |
Publisher | CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2012-06-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0643103767 |
To hold a little microbat in your hand, its body the size of the end of your thumb, is nothing but astounding. Its head is nearly the size of a man’s fingernail, its tiny ears are twitching as it struggles to get free, and then it bares its teeth to try and scare you into letting it go. Inside that tiny head is a powerhouse of information. Some of our little bats know the entire landscape of our east coast, and can pinpoint a cave entrance in dense forest 500 km from its last home. When they get there they know what to do – where to forage, which bat to mate with and how to avoid local predators. A Natural History of Australian Bats uncovers the unique biology and ecology of these wonderful creatures. It features a description of each bat species found in Australia, as well as a section on bat myths. The book is enhanced by stunning colour photographs from Steve Parish, most of which have never been seen before.
Australian Bats
Title | Australian Bats PDF eBook |
Author | Jill Morris |
Publisher | |
Pages | 47 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Bats |
ISBN | 9780947304089 |
Little Red Flying-fox - Tube-nosed Fruit Bat - Queensland Blossom Bat - Ghost Bat - Little Bent-wing Bat - Gould's Wattle Bat - Tasmanian Pipistrelle.
A Bat's End
Title | A Bat's End PDF eBook |
Author | John Woinarski |
Publisher | CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2018-09-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1486308651 |
On the evening of 26 August 2009, the last known pipistrelle emerges from its day-time shelter on Christmas Island. Scientists, desperate about its conservation, set up a maze of netting to try to catch it. It is a forlorn and futile exercise – even if captured, there is little future in just one bat. But the bat evades the trap easily, and continues foraging. It is not recorded again that night, and not at all the next night. The bat is never again recorded. The scientists search all nearby areas over the following nights. It has gone. There are no more bats. Its corpse is not, will never be, found. It is the silent, unobtrusive death of the last individual. It is extinction. This book is about that bat, about those scientists, about that island. But mostly it is an attempt to understand that extinction; an unusual extinction, because it was predicted, witnessed and its timing is precise. A Bat's End is a compelling forensic examination of the circumstances and players surrounding the extinction of the Christmas Island pipistrelle. A must-read for environmental scientists, policy-makers, and organisations and individuals with an interest in conservation.