Daily torpor in a pregnant common blossom-bat (Syconycteris Australis: Megachiroptera)

Australian Mammalogy

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 53-56

  Geiser, Fritz ^a   Körtner, Gerhard ^a   Blaw, Bradley S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b State Forests of New South Wales   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bat; Megachiroptera; Syconycteris; Torpor

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015438388     PISSN: 03100049     EISSN: 18367402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AM01053     Document Type: Article

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