Food and feeding habits of some bats from Turkey

WOS: 000275031500015 Food habits data were obtained from 26 species of bats from Turkey. Barbastella barbastellus, Myotis capaccinu, M mystacinus Plecotus auritus, P austriacus, P kolombatovici, P macrobullaris, and Rhinolophus euryale were primarily moth feeders. Epstesicus bottae, E serotinus, Myo...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Acta Chiropterologica
Main Authors: Whitaker, John O., Jr., Karatas, Ahmet
Other Authors: 0-Belirlenecek
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: MUSEUM & INST ZOOLOGY PAS-POLISH ACAD SCIENCES 2009
Subjects:
Chiroptera
Turkey
fecal analysis
food habits
Barbastella barbastellus
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/11480/5115
https://doi.org/10.3161/150811009X485611
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Summary:WOS: 000275031500015 Food habits data were obtained from 26 species of bats from Turkey. Barbastella barbastellus, Myotis capaccinu, M mystacinus Plecotus auritus, P austriacus, P kolombatovici, P macrobullaris, and Rhinolophus euryale were primarily moth feeders. Epstesicus bottae, E serotinus, Myotis myotis, and Taphozous nudiventris fed heavily on beetles. Myotis aurascens and, M brandtu fed heavily on Diptera Myotis blythu and Tadarida teniotis were tentatively classified as cricket feeders at least in Turkey Hypsugo savu, Minitopterus schreibersu, Myotis emarginatus, M nattereri, Pipistrellus kuhlu, P pipistrellus, P pygmaeus, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum R hipposideros, and R mehelyi preyed on a variety of insects and may be treated as generalists. In 17 species, the foods found paralleled those previously reported in the literature, but in nine (some with notably small samples) they did not. These are apparently the first data on the food of Plecotus macrobullaris, P kolombatovict, M schreibersii, and M aurascens.

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