Midnight's children?: Solitary primates and gregarious chiropterans

Current Science

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1208-1213

  Radhakrishna, Sindhu ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Bats; Gregarious; Nocturnal; Primates; Social organization; Solitary

Indexed keywords

CHIROPTERA; MAMMALIA; MEGACHIROPTERA; PRIMATES;

EID: 31644440777     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: 00113891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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