Beschreibung:
Schmidt-French, Barbara A
Highly beneficial animals, bats are critical to global ecological, economic, and publichealth. Do Bats Drink Blood? illuminates the role bats play in the ecosystem, their complex social behavior, and how they glide through the night sky using their acute hearing--echolocation skills that have helped in the development of navigational aids for the blind. This book includes rare color and black and white photographs and explores wide-ranging topics as well as common questions people have about bats, providing a trove of fascinating facts.
PrefaceChapter 1. Bat Basics Chapter 2. Bat Bodies Chapter 3. Bat LifeChapter 4. Bat Behavior Chapter 5. Bat Love Chapter 6. Dangers and Defenses Chapter 7. Bats and People Appendices