Seasonal Variation in the Diet of Mexican Free-tailed Bats, Tadarida brasiliensis antillularum (Miller) from a Colony in Puerto Rico

Caribbean Journal of Science

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 23-28

  Whitaker Jr , John O ^a   Rodríguez Durán, Armando ^a  

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