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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2003.
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| Series: | Organisms and environments ;
7. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.