All you can eat: High performance capacity and plasticity in the common big-eared bat, Micronycteris microtis (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Santana, Sharlene E ^a   Geipel, Inga ^b   Dumont, Elizabeth R ^c   Kalka, Margareta B ^d   Kalko, Elisabeth K V ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; HARDNESS; LIZARD; MASTICATION; MICRONYCTERIS MICROTIS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PREY; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EATING; ECHOLOCATION; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FOOD; GENETICS; MALE; PANAMA; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BITE FORCE; CHIROPTERA; DIET; EATING; ECHOLOCATION; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PANAMA; PHYLOGENY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 82555187438     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028584     Document Type: Article

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