Between wrinkles and stripes: the enigma of the old centurion.

Autor: Oliveira, Hernani FM
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment; Mar2023, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p93-93, 1p
Abstrakt: Yet, for nearly all bat species with translucent wings, that translucency is distributed across the entire wing - except for I C senex i and a few others. The wrinkle-faced bat ( I Centurio senex i ) is a rarely captured, frugivorous bat species - which is also a seed predator - distributed across Central America and northern South America. Wing translucency in bats is associated with camouflage, thermoregulation, and foraging strategies. [Extracted from the article]
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