Tag: Bats

Free Download Neil Middleton, "Social Calls of the Bats of Britain and Ireland"
English | ISBN: 1784273783 | 2022 | 200 pages | EPUB, PDF | 43 MB + 57 MB
The social calls of bats are an area about which relatively little is known, with more research still required to expand our understanding. However, these calls are increasingly recognised as a useful aid to identification: they appear to be species specific and are indicative of behaviour – as in territorial activity of males during the mating season. Because the gathering and interpretation of bat echolocation data are a matter of course during research, conservation and consultancy, it is a logical progression to build momentum behind the consideration of social calls in mainstream bat-related work. A better understanding of this subject could mean that non-intrusive survey methods are developed, ensuring that what is being observed is, as far as possible, purely natural behaviour. In turn this will contribute to better interpretation and more suitable mitigation, compensation and/or enhancement solutions.

Free Download Flying Mammals: Quick ID guide to the bats of Africa (Quick ID guides) by Chris Stuart, Mathilde Stuart
English | January 1, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08QXRZMWX | 42 pages | PDF | 17 Mb
Following the success of earlier ‘Quick Guide’ books, this slim little volume tackles one of the few groups of mammals that can fly. Divided into large fruit bats and smaller insect-eating bats, this ultimate quick identification guide covers Africa’s 12 bat families. An informative introduction touches on evolution, flight, echolocation and reproduction, demystifying an animal that is all too often misunderstood. The text describes the facial characteristics and wing shapes common to each family and points out features that can help to distinguish between them. But it is the photographs and annotated line drawings that are most useful for identification. They include bats in flight and roosting sites, and close-ups of facial structures and wings that highlight key diagnostic attributes. An added extra is a photographic section showing the skulls of a variety bats.

Free Download Gerald R. Gems, "Sport and the American Occupation of the Philippines: Bats, Balls, and Bayonets"
English | ISBN: 1498536654 | 2016 | 210 pages | EPUB | 1520 KB
This interdisciplinary case study invokes historical, sociological, and anthropological means to examine the ascendance of the United States to a world power in its first imperial venture. In the aftermath of the Spanish-American War of 1898 the U.S. acquired and occupied the Philippine Islands for nearly a half century in an attempt to install a democratic form of government, a capitalist economy, the Protestant religion, and a particular value system. Sport became a primary means to achieve such goals, fostered initially by the military, and then widely promoted in the schools and the YMCA. Competitive programs, including international athletic spectacles, channeled Filipino nationalism against Asian rivals rather than the American occupiers as guerrilla warfare ensued in the islands. The strategies learned in the Philippines, now known as "soft power" remain prominent factors in current American foreign policy.

Free Download Bats of British Columbia (Royal BC Museum Handbook), 2nd Edition by Cori Lausen, David Nagorsen, Mark Brigham, Jared Hobbs
English | March 25th, 2022 | ISBN: 0772679932 | 384 pages | True EPUB | 15.24 MB
A full-colour, fully updated field guide to identifying British Columbia’s bats, with new material on acoustic identification.