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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2011
10.7882/FS.2011.029
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-4-3
... roosting behaviour. The types of resources available to bats may influence their roosting behaviour and have consequences for social interactions, predation risk and parasite loads. At Gresswell Nature Conservation Reserve, in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, there are both natural hollows and bat boxes...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 26 (1): 1–6.
Published: 17 March 2014
... of Australia ed by A. Keast. Junk: The Hague. Ecological Biogerography of Australia 1555 83 HALL, L. S., 1982, The effect of cave microclimate on winter roosting behaviour in the bat Miniopterus schreibersii blepotis. Aust. J. Ecol. 7: 129-36. The effect of cave microclimate on winter roosting...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 34 (2): 173–180.
Published: 10 October 2011
... Bats and their Habitat in NPWS Eden District, on the Far South Coast of NSW. Forestry Commission 1987. Batemans Bay State Forests, Batemans Bay Forestry Region Project Map. Forestry Commission of NSW. Hall, L. S. 1982. The effect of cave microclimate on winter roosting behaviour in the bat...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2011
10.7882/FS.2011.009
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-4-3
... in abundance overlain on highly variable day-to-day patterns of roost use. Although the presence of individual, high site fidelity behaviour could not be precluded, the high turnover of flying-fox numbers on a within-tree basis precludes the presence of highly stable social groups, over the duration...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 30 (3): 351–357.
Published: 17 March 2014
... may not occur. The large colony of both sexes found at Brightview may indicate that clustering is a winter behaviour. The greater numbers of ectoparasites on female S. flaviuentris in the Brightview roost may be a result of sex differences in roost fidelity, or roost microhabitat choice. The absence...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (2): 204–215.
Published: 14 October 2011
... and biochemical generalisations Biological Reviews 74 1 40 Hall, L.S. 1982. The effect of cave microclimate on winter roosting behaviour in the bat, Miniopterus schreibersii blepotis. Australian Journal of Ecology 7: 129-136. The effect of cave microclimate on winter roosting behaviour in the bat...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (1): 82–91.
Published: 17 March 2014
... towards particular behaviour patterns were identified. Prey masses were used to determine a preferred size range for avian prey. From this information, and assessments of the damage to the bones, inferences were made regarding the capture and processing methods employed by M. gigas for birds. More than 50...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 34 (2): 125–132.
Published: 10 October 2011
... 1989; Pfister et al. 1992). In addition, the removal of important, but undocumented roosting and feeding sites can also have a detrimental impact. The migratory behaviour of shorebirds and the myriad of impacts that the birds experience throughout the Flyway and at their breeding grounds make...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2011
10.7882/FS.2011.010
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-4-3
... of microchiropterans exhibit adaptations for specialist trawling foraging behaviours. Approximately half of these species are relatively well represented in the literature. Amongst these, the Large-footed Myotis, Myotis macropus , exhibits typical trawling bat behaviour; spending the majority (~88%) of foraging time...
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Australian Zoologist (2024) 43 (4): 545–573.
Published: 24 January 2024
... Grey-headed Flying-foxes to adorn the word Community (Fig. 11), which artistically relates people gathering at the town centre with the communal roosting behaviours of flying-foxes. This promotes the perspective that flying-foxes aggregating at their roosts is similar to facets of human society...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (4): 565–574.
Published: 01 June 2020
... completion of all habitat removal and construction). These observations noted behaviour of the owls, roosting and nest locations and breeding behaviour and were compared with the observations made from 28 visits during the pre-disturbance period by Kavanagh and Murray (1996). Observations during and after...
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Australian Zoologist (2019) 40 (1): 75–91.
Published: 01 January 2019
... the remainder of the study period, Female 1 foraged and roosted within and closely adjacent to the home range core of Female 2. This behaviour suggested that Female 1 had not established a permanent home range core, although it appeared to have bred at least once (above) and overlapping home ranges appear...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2011
10.7882/9780980327243
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-4-3
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Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (3): 752–769.
Published: 02 March 2022
... activities. These letters also encouraged residents to continue to report observations of harassment incidents to Environment Line. Responses to extreme heat events Flying-foxes are susceptible to extreme heat events as they roost in vegetation. They deploy behaviours such as wingfanning, wrist-licking...