Nocturnal Creatures: 10 Foundational Books on Bats and Their Ecology
Foundational Studies of Bat Biology, Behavior, Distribution, and Ecological RolesBy Carleton J. Phillips, Ronald W. Turner, James Dale Smith, J. Knox Jones, Gary L. Phillips, Olin L. Webb, William B. Jackson, E. Raymond Hall, Walter Woelber Dalquest, Sydney Anderson
Length7h 32m
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Nocturnal Creatures gathers ten foundational studies of bats and their ecology, tracing the transformation of chiropteran scholarship from descriptive natural history to ecological interpretation. Across field observations, taxonomic inquiry, distributional records, and analyses of behavior and habitat, the volume reveals bats as crucial subjects for understanding adaptation, biodiversity, and nocturnal environments. Its varied scientific styles—careful species accounts, regional surveys, and broader ecological arguments—preserve the texture of research conducted close to the animals and landscapes themselves. The contributors, including Carleton J. Phillips, Ronald W. Turner, James Dale Smith, J. Knox Jones, Gary L. Phillips, Olin L. Webb, William B. Jackson, E. Raymond Hall, Walter Woelber Dalquest, and Sydney Anderson, represent a collective tradition of zoological and mammalogical investigation. Their work belongs to a period in which museum-based systematics, field collecting, biogeography, and ecological study increasingly informed one another. Read together, these voices illuminate how evidence about morphology, range, roosting, and behavior shaped a more integrated account of bat life. This volume is recommended for students of ecology, mammalogy, environmental history, and the history of science. It offers an exceptional opportunity to compare methods, regional perspectives, and scientific questions within one carefully framed collection. Readers will find both a valuable educational resource and a sustained dialogue about how nocturnal animals are observed, classified, and understood.
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GenreScience and Nature, Literary Classics
Length7 hrs 32 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Systematics of Megachiropteran Bats in the Solomon Islands
2INTRODUCTION
3GAZETTEER
4METHODS AND MATERIALS
5ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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6Key to Genera
7Taxonomic Notes on Mexican Bats of the Genus Rhogeëssa
8A New Subspecies of the Fruit-eating Bat, Sturnira ludovici, From Western Mexico
9Noteworthy Records of Bats From Nicaragua, with a Checklist of the Chiropteran Fauna of the Country
10OCCASIONAL PAPERS
11An Annotated Checklist of Nebraskan Bats
12HISTORY
13Seventeen Species of Bats Recorded from Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone
14Neotropical Bats from Western México
15LITERATURE CITED
16Extensions of Known Ranges of Mexican Bats
17Extensions of Known Ranges of Mexican Bats
18Extensions of Known Ranges of Mexican Bats
19North American Yellow Bats, 'Dasypterus,' and a List of the Named Kinds of the Genus Lasiurus Gray
20North American Yellow Bats, "Dasypterus," And a List of the Named Kinds Of the Genus Lasiurus Gray
21A Synopsis of the American Bats of the Genus Pipistrellus
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