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Drinking and Flying: Does Alcohol Consumption Affect the Flight and Echolocation Performance of Phyllostomid Bats?

BACKGROUND: In the wild, frugivorous and nectarivorous bats often eat fermenting fruits and nectar, and thus may consume levels of ethanol that could induce inebriation. To understand if consumption of ethanol by bats alters their access to food and general survival requires examination of behaviour...

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Autores principales: Orbach, Dara N., Veselka, Nina, Dzal, Yvonne, Lazure, Louis, Fenton, M. Brock
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2813879/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20126552
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008993