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Barcode30293102315061
LocationClark County
Call No599.4 Yove
TitleThe genius bat : the secret life of the only flying mammal / Yossi Yovel.
AuthorYovel, Yossi (Ecologist and neurobiologist), author.
CollectionNF
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Clark County30293102315061599.4 Yove10/13/2025 AvailableClark County

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781250378453 electronic book
International Standard Book Number 9781250378446 hardcover
International Standard Book Number 1250378443 hardcover
Personal Name Yovel, Yossi (Ecologist and neurobiologist), author.
Title Statement The genius bat : the secret life of the only flying mammal / Yossi Yovel.
Edition Statement First U.S. edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : St. Martin's Press, 2025.
Physical Description viii, 309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
General Note Includes index.
General Note Originally published in Israel in 2023 by Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir.
Summary, Etc. "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 sometime 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 might mammal"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Bats.
Index Term-Genre/Form Informational works.

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