Frequent or scarce? Damage to flight–enabling body parts in bats (Chiroptera)
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. Th...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:6645484 2023-05-15T15:37:50+02:00 Frequent or scarce? Damage to flight–enabling body parts in bats (Chiroptera) Cichocki, Jan Warchałowski, Marcin Ważna, Agnieszka Gottfried, Iwona Bator–Kocoł, Anna Gottfried, Tomasz Kościelska, Adrianna Bojarski, Jacek Pietraszko–Warchałowska, Monika Gabryś, Grzegorz 2019-07-22 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6645484/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31329631 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219783 en eng Public Library of Science http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6645484/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31329631 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219783 © 2019 Cichocki et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. CC-BY Research Article Text 2019 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219783 2019-08-04T00:57:21Z 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. Text Barbastella barbastellus Myotis nattereri PubMed Central (PMC) PLOS ONE 14 7 e0219783 |
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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. |
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Cichocki, Jan Warchałowski, Marcin Ważna, Agnieszka Gottfried, Iwona Bator–Kocoł, Anna Gottfried, Tomasz Kościelska, Adrianna Bojarski, Jacek Pietraszko–Warchałowska, Monika Gabryś, Grzegorz |
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