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The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal - Hardcover

Yovel, Yossi

 
9781250378446: The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1250378443 ISBN 13: 9781250378446
Verlag: St. Martin's Press, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

"[A] wonderful book." —Nature

"A mind-opening adventure." —Natural History

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 sometimes 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 mighty mammal.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Yossi Yovel is an ecologist and a neurobiologist – a rare combination of disciplines. A professor at Tel-Aviv University and the head of the School of Neuroscience, he has conducted research all around the world, using an arsenal of methods and equipment. His work has been covered by major media outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Economist, NPR, BBC, and National Geographic. A sought-after public speaker, he is currently a visiting scholar at McGill University in Montreal.

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Verlag
St. Martin's Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1250378443
ISBN 13 
9781250378446
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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