Bats
- Binding: Hardcover
- Edition: 2
- Publisher: Facts on File
- Publish date: 05/01/2001
Description:
Oversized and lavishly illustrated with striking color photography throughout, Bats -- now completely revised -- is the best comprehensive natural history on this subject written for a general audience. In addition to examining all aspects of bat biology, the book helps dispel many myths about bats, such as the idea that bats are blind.
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Updated information includes:
-- Bat anatomy and behavior
-- Echolocation, or the sonar sight of bats
-- Senses, diets, roosts, and habitats of bats
-- The social organization of specific species
-- The proven existence of vampire bats
-- Bat conservation
-- Web sites that provide more information about bats.
The book concludes with a look at mankind's images of bats in art and folklore, in religion, and in the popular imagination.
Product notice
Returnable at the third party seller's discretion and may come without consumable supplements like access codes, CD's, or workbooks.
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