Postnatal growth, age estimation and development of foraging behaviour in the fulvous fruit bat Rousettus leschenaulti

Journal of Biosciences

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 695-702

  Elangovan, V ^a   Raghuram, H ^a   Yuvana Satya Priya, E ^a   Marimuthu, G ^a  

^a MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Age estimation; Fruit bat; Growth curve; Megachiroptera; Postnatal; Rousettus leschenaulti

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; BAT; CAPTIVE POPULATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH;

AGE DETERMINATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HEALTH; ARTICLE; BAT; BODY MASS; EPIPHYSIS; FEMALE; FLYING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FOREARM; FRUIT; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL GROWTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUCKLING; WEANING;

ANIMALIA; MEGACHIROPTERA; ROUSETTUS; ROUSETTUS LESCHENAULTI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036952848     PISSN: 02505991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02708378     Document Type: Article

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