Foraging behavior adjustments related to changes in nectar sugar concentration in phyllostomid bats

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 143-148

  Ayala Berdon, Jorge ^a   Rodríguez Peña, Nelly ^a   Orduña Villaseñor, Mónica ^a   Stoner, Kathryn E ^a   Kelm, Detlev H ^b   Schondube, Jorge E ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activity patterns; Behavioral compensation; Energy balance; Foraging behavior; Intake response; Phyllostomid bats

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE; SUGAR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; FLIGHT; FOOD INTAKE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GLOSSOPHAGA SORICINA; LEPTONYCTERIS YERBABUENAE; NECTAR; NONHUMAN;

GLOSSOPHAGA SORICINA; LEPTONYCTERIS YERBABUENAE; PHYLLOSTOMIDAE;

EID: 79960697849     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.05.030     Document Type: Article

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