The secret lives of bats : my adventures with the world's most misunderstood mammals
Title:
The secret lives of bats : my adventures with the world's most misunderstood mammals
Author:
Tuttle, Merlin D.
ISBN:
9780544382275
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Publication Information:
Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
[2015?]
©2015
Physical Description:
xvi, 271 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents:
Teenage discoveries -- Saving the gray myotis -- Tracking bat nightlife -- Investigating vampire bats -- Bats through a camera's eye -- Discovering frog-eating bats -- Finding America's most elusive bats -- Cacti that compete for bats -- Free-tailed bat caves and crop pests -- African adventures -- Bat-loving monks, tigers, and poachers -- Mysteries of bat-guiding flowers -- Bat foresters -- Fruit grower complaints -- A national park for bats -- Epilogue: Hope for the future.
Abstract:
A lifetime of adventures with bats around the world reveals why these special and imperiled creatures should be protected rather than feared.
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