Frequent or scarce? Damage to flight–enabling body parts in bats (Chiroptera)

Autor: Iwona Gottfried, Jacek Bojarski, Agnieszka Ważna, Anna Bator–Kocoł, Monika Pietraszko–Warchałowska, Adrianna Kościelska, J. Cichocki, Grzegorz Gabryś, Tomasz Gottfried, Marcin Warchałowski
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
0106 biological sciences
Physiology
Social Sciences
Predation
Myotis myotis
Hipposideros
01 natural sciences
Animal Wings
Ornithology
Chiroptera
Bats
Bird Flight
Medicine and Health Sciences
Psychology
Wings
Animal
Foraging
Bat Flight
Animal Anatomy
Animal Flight
Mammals
Multidisciplinary
biology
Animal Behavior
Ecology
Physics
Eukaryota
Classical Mechanics
Trophic Interactions
010601 ecology
Barbastella barbastellus
Community Ecology
Vertebrates
Physical Sciences
Medicine
Bird flight
Anatomy
Research Article
animal structures
Science
Zoology
Horseshoe bat
010603 evolutionary biology
Animals
Ecosystem
Behavior
Damage Mechanics
Biological Locomotion
Myotis nattereri
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Organisms
Biology and Life Sciences
Feeding Behavior
biology.organism_classification
Logistic Models
Flight
Animal
Amniotes
Plecotus auritus
Zdroj: PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE, Vol 14, Iss 7, p e0219783 (2019)
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: Bat wings are characterized by high endurance, and these mammals have developed a number of adaptations that protect them from falling into obstacles and potential injuries. However, in bat populations, there are individuals with visible fresh or healed injuries to the flight-enabling body parts. The aim of this research was to determine the differences in the occurrence of wing membrane damages among species of bats that differ in ecology and behavior. The study was conducted in southern and western Poland in the years 2000-2016 and included 3,525 individuals of six species: lesser horseshoe bat Rhinolopus hipposideros, Daubenton's bat Myotis daubentonii, Natterer's bat Myotis nattereri, greater mouse-eared bat Myotis myotis, western barbastelle Barbastella barbastellus, and brown long-eared bat Plecotus auritus. In all, 2.9% of the bats studied showed damage to the flight-enabling body parts. Natterer's bat was the species with the highest number of injured individuals (21.74%). The lowest number of injured individuals (0.3%) was found in the brown long-eared bat. The most frequently observed type of damage was loss of an edge of the wing membrane (29.3%). The bat species studied differed significantly in the occurrence and location of flight enabling body parts damages. Certain behavioral and ecological factors like foraging mode, foraging habitats and habitat types of bat species determine the number of wing and tail membrane damages.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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