The genius bat : the secret life of the only flying mammal / Yossi Yovel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yovel, Yossi, 1979- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bats.

Genre:

Informational works.

Physical Description:

viii, 309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2025.

Summary:

"An awe-inspiring tour of bat world by the world's leading expert With nearly 1500 species, bats account for more than twenty percent of mammalian species. The most successful and most diverse group of mammals, bats come in different sizes, shapes, and colors, from the tiny bumblebee bat to the giant golden-crowned flying fox. Some bats eat fruit and nectar; others eat frogs, scorpions or fish. Vampire bats feed on blood. Bats are the only mammals that can fly; their fingers have elongated through evolution to become wings with a unique super-flexible skin membrane stretched between them. Their robust immune system is one of the reasons for their extreme longevity. A tiny bat can live for forty years. Yossi Yovel, an ecologist and a neurobiologist, is passionate about deciphering the secrets of bats, including using AI to decipher their communication. In The Genius Bat he brings to vivid life these amazing creatures as well as the obsessive and sometime eccentric people who study them-bat scientists. From muddy rainforests, to star-covered night deserts, from guest houses in Thailand, to museum drawers full of fossils in New York, this is an eye-opening and entertaining account of a might mammal."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Part One: Sociality

On vampires and socialization

On living in groups in hammer-headed and fish-eating bats

On sac-winged bats and animal language

Part Two: Echolocation

On horseshoe bats and the doppler effect

Into the brain of the little brown bat

On time and space

On shrews and tenrecs

On the war between bats and insects

Part Three: Evolution

On the echolocation of fossils

On bat bones

On the genes of echolocation

How new bat species emerge

Part Four: Nature conservation

On bats and humans

On bat diseases

On bats and the future

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes index.

Originally published in Israel in 2023 by Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir.

ISBN:

9781250378446

1250378443

OCLC:

1478324402

Publisher Number:

90102712311