ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2024
Torpor use in the wild by one of the world's largest bats.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Energetic Costs of Extreme Heat: High Temperatures Elevate Daytime Activity and Suppress Nighttime Foraging in Flying-Foxes.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Daily torpor in summer- and winter-acclimated hamsters: are thermal biology and balancing energy budgets under a different seasonal physiological control?Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2026Article
- The Life of Brian … and David: Two Flying-Foxes' Contribution to Science.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
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- Flight behaviour and short-distance homing by nomadic grey-headed flying-foxes: a pilot study.Movement ecology · 2025Article
- Torpor use in the wild by one of the world's largest bats.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
Torpor is widespread among bats presumably because most species are small, and torpor greatly reduces their high mass-specific resting energy expenditure, especially in the cold. Torpor has not been recorded in any bat species larger than 50 g, yet in theory could be beneficial even in the world's largest bats (flying-foxes;
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