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Bats that walk: a new evolutionary hypothesis for the terrestrial behaviour of New Zealand's endemic mystacinids
BACKGROUND: New Zealand's lesser short-tailed bat Mystacina tuberculata is one of only two of c.1100 extant bat species to use a true walking gait when manoeuvring on the ground (the other being the American common vampire bat Desmodus rotundus). Mystacina tuberculata is also the last surviving...
Autores principales: | Hand, Suzanne J, Weisbecker, Vera, Beck, Robin MD, Archer, Michael, Godthelp, Henk, Tennyson, Alan JD, Worthy, Trevor H |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2729772/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19615105 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-169 |
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