website of the Bats

References


^ Tudge, Colin (2000). The Variety of Life. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860426-2.
^ a b Melissa Calhoun (15 December 2005). Bats Use Touch Receptors on Wings to Fly, Catch Prey, Study Finds. Retrieved on 2006-10-18.
^ Chamberlain, Ted (2006-12-06). Photo in the News: Bat Has Longest Tongue of Any Mammal. National Geographic News. National Geographic Society. Retrieved on 2007-06-18. “A. fistulata (shown lapping sugar water from a tube) has the longest tongue, relative to body length, of any mammal—and now scientists think they know why.”
^ "Baby bats under threat from wet weather", Bat Conservation Trust, 3 July 2007, retrieved 2 August 2007
^ http://www.batworld.org/main/main.html Retrieved 22 October 2006.
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General references


Greenhall, Arthur H. 1961. Bats in Agriculture. A Ministry of Agriculture Publication. Trinidad and Tobago.
Nowak, Ronald M. 1994. " Walker's BATS of the World". The John Hopikins University Press, Baltimore and London.
John D. Pettigrew's summary on Flying Primate Hypothesis
Altringham, J.D. 1998. Bats: Biology and Behaviour. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Dobat, K.; Holle, T.P. 1985. Blüten und Fledermäuse: Bestäubung durch Fledermäuse und Flughunde (Chiropterophilie). Frankfurt am Main: W. Kramer & Co. Druckerei.
Fenton, M.B. 1985. Communication in the Chiroptera. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Findley, J.S. 1995. Bats: a Community Perspective. Cambridge: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge.
Fleming, T.H. 1988. The Short-Tailed Fruit Bat: a Study in Plant-Animal Interactions. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Kunz, T.H. 1982. Ecology of Bats. New York: Plenum Press.
Kunz, T.H.; Racey, P.A. 1999. Bat Biology and Conservation. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Kunz, T.H.; Fenton, M.B. 2003. Bat Ecology. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Neuweiler, G. 1993. Biologie der Fledermäuse. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag.
Nowak, R.M. 1994. Walker's Bats of the World. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Richarz, K. & Limbruner, A. 1993. The World of Bats. Neptune City: TFH Publications.
Twilton, B. 1999. My Life as The Bat. Liverpool Hope University press


External links



Tree of Life
Bat evolution linked to warming
Microbat Vision
Bats of Australia

I think it has many informations about bats .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat

Here is some information in Wikipedia about bats .

A bat is a mammal in the order Chiroptera. Their most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals in the world naturally capable of flight (though other mammals, such as flying squirrels, gliding flying possums and colugos, can glide for limited distances). The word Chiroptera comes from the Greek words cheir " hand " and pteron " wing " as the structure of the open wing is very similar to an outspread human hand with a membrane (patagium) between the fingers that also stretches between hand and body.

There are estimated to be about 1,100 species of bats worldwide, accounting for about 20 percent of all mammal species. About 70 percent of bats are insectivores. Of the remainder, most feed on fruits and their juices. Only three species sustain themselves with blood, some preying on vertebrates: these include the leaf-nosed bats (Phyllostomidae) of Central America and South America, and the two bulldog bat (Noctilionidae) species, which feed on fish. At least two species of bat are known to feed on other bats: the Spectral Bat, also called the American False Vampire bat, and the Ghost Bat of Australia. One species, the Greater Noctule bat, is believed to catch and eat small birds in the air. Bats are present throughout most of the world; despite the cold weather, there are six species of bats in Alaska.

Some of the smaller bat species are important pollinators of some tropical flowers. Indeed, many tropical plants are now found to be totally dependent on them, not just for pollination, but for spreading their seeds by eating the resulting fruits. This role explains environmental concerns when a bat is introduced in a new setting. Tenerife provides a recent example with the introduction of the Egyptian fruit bat.

Bats can also be in the superorder Archonta.