Wing morphology and flight development in the short-nosed fruit bat Cynopterus sphinx

Zoology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 189-196

  Elangovan, Vadamalai ^a   Yuvana Satya Priya, Elangovan ^a   Raghuram, Hanumanth ^a   Marimuthu, Ganapathy ^a  

^a MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Flight performance; Growth curves; Logistic equation; Pteropodid bats; Wing loading

Indexed keywords

CYNOPTERUS SPHINX; PTEROPODIDAE;

EID: 34249340803     PISSN: 09442006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.zool.2007.02.001     Document Type: Article

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