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A New Method Of Calculating The Wing Area Of Bats, B.R. Blood, Donald A. Mcfarlane
A New Method Of Calculating The Wing Area Of Bats, B.R. Blood, Donald A. Mcfarlane
WM Keck Science Faculty Papers
Wing area is a parameter important to any study of chiropteran flight behaviour (Struthsaker 1961 ; Findley et al. 1972 ; Lawlor 1973), because it is a necessary component for the calculation of aspect ratio and wing loading. Bats possessing high aspect ratio wings usually display swift and steady flight, often at high altitudes. Bats that possess low aspect ratio wings usually display slower, more manouverable flight and often fly at lower altitudes (Findley 1972 ; Findley et al. 1972 ; Mortensen 1977 ; Vaughan 1970). However, despite the importance of wing area, no-one has published a simple, yet accurate, …
An Abbreviated Catalogue Of The Australian Bats In The Collections Of The Natural History Museum Of Los Angeles County, California, Usa., Donald A. Mcfarlane, Kenneth E. Stager
An Abbreviated Catalogue Of The Australian Bats In The Collections Of The Natural History Museum Of Los Angeles County, California, Usa., Donald A. Mcfarlane, Kenneth E. Stager
WM Keck Science Faculty Papers
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (LACM) is the repository for some 90,000 mammal specimens of world-wide provenance, and is particularly strong in its collections of Chiroptera. As the result of numerous collecting expeditions undertaken by one of us (KES) since 1954, a substantial representation of Australian bats has been assembled. It is our intent in this paper to bring these collections to the attention of our Australian colleagues, so that this biogeographic and systematic resource might be more widely used.