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| Author | : Don E. Wilson |
| Publisher | : Smithsonian Books (DC) |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : |
Covers all aspects of bat biology, habitat, and behavior in a practical question-and-answer format. Also includes the conservation status, common name, and scientific name of over 500 species of bats throughout the world.
| Author | : Barbara A. Schmidt-French |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 191 |
| Release | : 2009-08-31 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0813548403 |
Bat biologist Barbara A. Schmidt-French and writer Carol A. Butler offer a compendium of insightful facts about bats in this accessible and expertly written question-and-answer volume. Numbering more than one thousand species in our world today, bats in the wild are generally unthreatening. Like most other mammals, bats are curious, affectionate, and even playful with one another. Highly beneficial animals, bats are critical to global ecological, economic, and public health. 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 hearingùecholocation skills that have helped in the development of navigational aids for the blind. Personal in voice with the perspective of a skilled bat researcher, this book explores wideranging topics as well as common questions people have about bats, providing a trove of fascinating facts. Featuring rare color and black-and-white photographs, including some by renowned biologist, photographer, and author Merlin Tuttle, Do Bats Drink Blood? provides a comprehensive resource for general readers, students, teachers, zoo and museum enthusiasts, farmers and orchardists, or anyone who may encounter or be fascinated by these extraordinary animals.
| Author | : Melvin Berger |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Reference |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 2001-10-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780439229043 |
Questions and answers present the habitats and behavior of a variety of nocturnal animals, from cats and kiwis to bats, owls, and foxes.
| Author | : Brian Lies |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2008-09-08 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0547740751 |
The Caldecott Honor winner and New York Times bestselling author of Bats at the Beach “pays homage to the pleasures to be found within libraries and books” (School Library Journal). Another inky evening’s here—the air is cool and calm and clear. Can it be true? Oh, can it be? Yes!—Bat Night at the library! Join the free-for-all fun at the public library with these book-loving bats! Shape shadows on walls, frolic in the water fountain, and roam the book-filled halls until it’s time for everyone, young and old, to settle down into the enchantment of story time. Brian Lies’s joyful critters and their nocturnal celebration cast library visits in a new light. Even the youngest of readers will want to join the batty book-fest! “As with its predecessor, this book’s richly detailed chiaroscuro paintings find considerable humor at the intersection where bat and human behavior meet. But the author/artist outdoes himself: the library-after-dark setting works a magic all its own, taking Lies and his audience to a an intensely personal place.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “The rhymed narrative serves primarily as the vehicle for the appealing acrylic illustrations that teem with bats so charming they will even win over chiroptophobes.”—Booklist “There is enough merriness here to keep the story bubbling . . . Pictures light-handedly capture the Cheshire Bat, Winnie the Bat and Little Red Riding Bat.”—Kirkus Reviews
| Author | : Don E. Wilson |
| Publisher | : Smithsonian Institution |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2015-03-10 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1588345114 |
Long the subject of myth and superstition, bats have been among the most misunderstood of mammals due to their nocturnal habits, capacity for flight, and strange appearance. Seeking to dispel the myths associated with these remarkable creatures and arguing for their key role in a balanced ecosystem, Bats in Question covers all aspects of bat biology in a practical question-and-answer format. Describing where bats live, how they use echolocation to navigate, and even why they hang upside down, the book also gives the conservation status of all 925 bat species. Don E. Wilson traces the evolution of bats and shows their remarkable diversity by describing each of the major groups in terms of their different body structures and habitats. He sheds light on bats' complex social systems, extraordinary variation in size, and food preferences that encompass plants, insects, and mammals. The book also explores cultural attitudes about bats—telling how, until recently, bats had been relegated to the world of vampires and how they have emerged to take their place in public awareness as important and fascinating members of our ecosystems.
| Author | : Karen Taschek |
| Publisher | : UNM Press |
| Total Pages | : 108 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780826344038 |
Presents an introduction to bats, discussing their physical characteristics, feeding behaviors, nocturnal habits, migration, their role in helping ecosystems, and their place in popular culture, along with instructions for building a bat house.
| Author | : Ross Thompson |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2023-01-25 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1725293277 |
In this sequel to Outgrowing Materialism, Thompson explores five conceptual “Worlds” that preceded the dualist v. materialist divide and shows why recent philosophy—often little-known outside of academic circles—is now giving these old ideas a new relevance. In an approachable way, but without avoiding complexity, Embodying Mind leads the reader through the Worlds of panpsychism, idealism, Aristotelianism, emergence, and information theory, holism, and process theology, examining the ideas of ethics and God, and the difficult questions, accompanying each. Thompson concludes that causal processes harmonize as in a cosmic counterpoint. The world and its beautiful contents form a seamless material whole. It is not as if Mind or God glints obscurely through ever-narrowing chinks in otherwise seamless nature. There are no chinks, but the whole is full of Mind. Overall, imperfectly, things are moving towards their sustaining good: God is becoming God, surpassing God. Embodying Mind can be read independently from Outgrowing Materialism, but together the two volumes of Ten Ways to Weave the Word mount a robust, wide-ranging case that nobody interested in the science v. religion debate, or wishing more widely for an integrated understanding of “Matter, Mind and God,” can afford to ignore.
| Author | : Douglas Llewellyn |
| Publisher | : Corwin Press |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2007-05-24 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1452293643 |
Offering case studies, ready-to-use lessons, and teacher-friendly materials, this updated edition shows educators how to implement inquiry in the science classroom, incorporate technology, and work with ELLs and special education students.
| Author | : James S. Findley |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 1995-01-26 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521479561 |
Extensive scientific study of bats suggests that they are long-lived, slowly reproducing animals adapted to relatively stable environments. As such they might be expected to exist in communities heavily influenced by biotic interactions. This book begins with an overview of bat biology, including their systematic diversity and methodological problems in bat research. This is followed by examples of local bat community surveys from the major biogeographic regions. The evidence bearing upon resource limitation and competition in bats is reviewed. Then patterns in species richness, taxonomic, packing, biomass, numerical density, trophic and morphological diversity are described. The relevance of these to the nature of bat communities is examined. Major habitats and their histories are shown to be powerful predictors of important aspects of bat community structure.
