Use of the wings in manipulative and suspensory behaviors during feeding by frugivorous bats

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Comparative Experimental Biology

Volumn 301, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 361-366

  Vandoros, Jason Demetri ^a   Dumont, Elizabeth Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHYLLOSTOMIDAE; PTEROPODIDAE;

EID: 1942520982     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.a.20040     Document Type: Article

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