Bats in Captivity - Volume 2: Aspects of Rehabilitation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781934899045)

A comprehensive book intended for anyone maintaining bats in captivity. Bats in Captivity is the only book of its kind, detailing the captive care of bats worldwide. This volume comprises 38 papers by 41 contributing authors. It contains a user-friendly guide to bat identification, subjects on reproductive patterns and parental care, social organization and communication, capturing and handling, releasing bats into the wild, marking bats for individual identification, torpor and hibernation, lactation and postnatal growth, simulating mother's milk and hand rearing pups of all bat groups, plus much more.

Author: Susan M. Barnard
ISBN-10: 1934899046
ISBN-13: 9781934899045
Publisher: Logos Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2010
Pages: 484
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.32lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.06d