Cargando…
A Bat Man in the Tropics : Chasing El Duende /
Annotation The euphoria of discovery is the only motivation many scientists need for studying nature and its secrets. Yet euphoria is rarely expressed in scientific publications. This book, a personal account of more than thirty years of fieldwork by one of the world's leading bat biologists, w...
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2003.
|
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; MAPS; 1. Up a Quebrada without a Paddle; 2. Year of the Marmosa; 3. Along the Río Corobici; 4. El Duende; 5. Three Hundred Nights of Solitude; 6. Anastasio's Last Stand; 7. Vampyrum; 8. Fooling Around with Flying Foxes; 9. Tracy's Hypothesis; 10. Along the Nectar Trail; 11. In the Blink of an Eye; Epilogue; Appendix 1: A Brief Overview of Bat Diversity; Appendix 2: Some Common and Scientific Names Used in the Text; References; Subject Index; Name Index.