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Contents Preface Organization Acknowledgments 1. Puerto Rican Ecosystems Environmental Template Geography Geological History Temperature and Rainfall Hurricanes Forest Types and Life Zones The Human Influence An Overview of Puerto Rican Mammals Island Biology Community Ecology within the Caribbean Basin 2. Bats: Facts and Misconceptions Classification Structure of a Bat Seeing with Sound Nocturnal Behavior Shelter and Insulation Food, Guano, Ecology, and the Economy Bats and the Taíno Vampire Bats and the Vampire Myth Bats and Public Health Histoplasmosis Rabies Eliminating Bats from Buildings 3. Family and Species Accounts Noctilionidae--Bulldog or Fishing Bats Noctilio leporinus--Greater Bulldog Bat Mormoopidae--Mustached or Ghost-faced Bats Mormoops blainvillii--Antillean Ghost-faced Bat Pteronotus parnellii--Parnell's Mustached Bat Pteronotus quadridens--Sooty Mustached Bat Phyllostomidae--American Leaf-nosed Bats Artibeus jamaicensis--Jamaican Fruit Bat Brachyphylla cavernarum--Antillean Fruit Bat Erophylla sezekorni--Brown Flower Bat Monophyllus redmani--Greater Antillean Long-tongued bat Stenoderma rufum--Red Fig-eating Bat Vespertilionidae--Plain-nosed or Vesper Bats Eptesicus fuscus--Big Brown Bat Lasiurus borealis--Red Bat Molossidae--Free-tailed Bats Molossus molossus--Velvety Free-tailed Bat Tadarida brasiliensis--Brazilian Free-tailed Bat 4. Conservation of Bats in the Caribbean Basin 5. Keys to the Bats of Puerto Rico Key to Adult Bats Using External Characters Key to Adult Bats Using Cranial and Dental Characters Appendices Appendix 1. Plants Used as Food by Bats Appendix 2. Body Measurements Appendix 3. Cranial Measurements Appendix 4. Ectoparasites Appendix 5. Chromosomal Characteristics Appendix 6. Technical Names of Plants Mentioned in the Text Appendix 7. Technical Names of Animals Mentioned in the Text Appendix 8. Gazetteer Glossary References Index
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Bats -- Puerto Rico.