Bats in Captivity - Volume 2: Aspects of Rehabilitation - Hardback

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
• | Publisher: Logos Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 01, 2010
• | Number of Pages: 484 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 1934899046
• | ISBN-13: 9781934899045