The Genius Bat
The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
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Narrateur(s):
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Max Meyers
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Auteur(s):
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Yossi Yovel
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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.
©2025 Yossi Yovel (P)2025 Macmillan AudioCe que les critiques en disent
“A marvelous book. If you are at all curious about bats and the scientists who study them, this is the book for you.”—Nancy Simmons, Curator of Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History
"You will never think of bats (or zoologists) in the same way. The book is a masterpiece of story-telling.”—Ron Milo, Weizmann Institute, author of Biology by the Numbers
“In this excellent book, Yovel draws you into the lives of bats. He provides many astonishing details of what bats do and why.”—Brock Fenton, Emeritus Professor, Western University, Ontario, author of A Miscellany of Bats