Exodus hours and seasonality of the bats in four caves from Dominican Republic
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Emergence patterns and reproductive status of populations of bats were studied in four caves of the Dominican Republic. Twelve species were captured: Mormoops blainvillei, Pteronotus parnellii, Pteronotus quadridens, Chilonatalus micropus, Natalus major, Artibeus jamaicensis, Brachyphylla pumila, Erophylla bombifrons, Macrotus waterhousii, Monophyllus redmani, Eptesicus fuscus and Phyllonycteris poeyi. Bats were captured more or less continuously between 18:15 and 23:00. From a total of 1,445 bats which were sexed, 969 were males (67.1%). The results show that the species in the caves are at different reproductive stages, with pregnant or lactating specimens belonging to two dominant families: Mormopidae and Phyllostomidae. In addition, we compared reports from Cuba and Puerto Rico, which show that some species may have longer breeding seasons than reported in this study.
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harp trap, reproductive activity, Mormoopidae, Phyllostomidae, lunar phobia
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Börk, K. S. 2006. Lunar phobia in the greater fishing bat Noctilio leporinus (Chiroptera: Noctilionidae). Revista de Biología Tropical, 54: 4.
Buden, D. W. 1975. A taxonomic and zoogeographic appraisal of the big-eared bat (Macrotus waterhousii Gray) in the West Indies. Journal of Mammalogy, 56: 758-769.
Fleming, T. H., E. T. Hooper y D. E. Wilson. 1972. Three Central American bat communities: structure, reproductive cycles and movement patterns. Ecology 53 : 555-569.
Gannon, M. R., A. Kurta, A. Rodríguez-Durán y M. R. Willig. 2005. Bats of Puerto Rico: An Island Focus and a Caribbean Perspective. Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock. 239 pp.
Herd, R. M. 1983. Pteronotus parnellii. American Society of Mammalogists, Mammalian Species, 209: 1-5.
Hodgkison, R., S. T. Balding, A. Zubaid, y T.H. Kunz. 2004. Temporal variation in the relative abundance of fruit bats (Megachiroptera: Pteropodidae) in relation to the availability of food in a lowland Malaysian rain forest. Biotropica, 36: 522-533.
Klingener, D., H. H, Genoways y R.J. Baker. 1978. Bats from Southern Haiti. Annals of Carnegie Museum, 47 (5): 81-99.
Lancaster, W. C. y E. K. V. Kalko. 1996. Mormoops blainvillii. American Society of Mammalogists, Mammalian Species, 544: 1-5.
Mares, M. A. y D. E. Wilson. 1971. Bat reproduction during the Costa Rican dry season. Bioscience 21: 471-477.
Meyer, C. F. J., C. J. Schwarz y J. Fahr. 2004. Activity patterns and habitat preferences of insectivorous bats in a West African forest–savanna mosaic. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 20: 397–407.
Morrison, D. 1978. Lunar phobia in a Neotropical fruit bat, Artibeus jamaicensis (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Animal Behavior, 26: 852-855.
Moya M. I., F. Montaño-Centellas, L. F. Aguirre, J. Tordoya, J. Martínez y M. Isabel Galarza. 2008. Variación temporal de la quiropterofauna en un bosque de yungas en Bolivia. Mastozoología Neotropical, 15 (2): 349-357.
Núñez-Novas, M. S. y Y. M. León. 2011. Análisis de la colección de Murciélagos del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Santo Domingo. Novitates Caribaea, 4: 109-119.
Ortega, J. y I. Castro-Arellano. 2001. Artibeus jamaicensis. American Society of Mammalogists, Mammalian Species, 662: 1-9.
Rodriguez-Duran A y E. Padilla-Rodriguez. 2010. “New Records for the Bat Fauna of Mona Island, Puerto Rico, with Notes on their Natural History”, Caribbean Journal of Science 46 (1): 102-105.
Rodriguez-Durán, A. y T. H. Kunz. 1992. Pteronotus quadridens. American Society of Mammalogists, Mammalian Species, 395: 1-4.
Rodríguez-Durán, A. y T. H. Kunz. 2001. Biogeography of West Indian Bats: An ecological perspective. Pp. 355-368 en: Woods, Charles H. and Sergile, Florence E. (eds.) Biogeography of the West Indies. Patterns and Perspectives. CRC Press, Boca Ratón, Florida.
Rodríguez-Dúran, A. y R. Lewis. 1987. Patterns of population size, diet and activity time for a multispecies assemblage of bats at a cave in Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science 23: 352–360.
Ruckstuhl, K., P. Neuhaus. 2005. Sexual segregation in vertebrates. Cambridge University Press.
Silva Taboada, G. 1979. Los murciélagos de Cuba. Editorial Academia, La Habana, Cuba.
Stoner, K. E. 2005. Phyllostomid bat community structure and abundance in two contrasting tropical dry forests. Biotropica 37: 591-599.
Tejedor, A., V. d. C. Tavares, y G. Silva-Taboada. 2005. Taxonomic revision of Greater Antillean bats of the genus Natalus. American Museum Novitates, 3493: 1-22.
Torres-Flores, J. W. 2005. Estructura de una comunidad tropical de murciélagos presente en la cueva El Salitre, Colima, México. Tesis de Maestro en Biología. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, unidad Iztapalapa. http://148.206.53.84/tesiuami/UAMI12041.pdf.
Trejo-Rogelio, B. 2003. Patrón de actividad del vuelo de emergencia de los murciélagos de la cueva de Los Laguitos, Chiapas. Tesis de Licenciatura–Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, unidad Iztapalapa.
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Núñez-Novas, M. S., León, Y. M., Mateo, J., & Dávalos, L. M. (2014). Exodus hours and seasonality of the bats in four caves from Dominican Republic. Novitates Caribaea, (7), 83–94. https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.v0i7.68
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