Rain increases the energy cost of bat flight
Open Access
- 4 May 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Royal Society in Biology Letters
- Vol. 7 (5), 793-795
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0313
Abstract
Similar to insects, birds and pterosaurs, bats have evolved powered flight. But in contrast to other flying taxa, only bats are furry. Here, we asked whether flight is impaired when bat pelage and ...Keywords
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