Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Maps 1. Up a Quebrada without a Paddle 2. Year of the Marmosa 3. Along the Rio Corobici 4. El Duende 5. Three Hundred Nights of Solitude 6. Anastasio's Last Stand 7. Vampyrum 8. Fooling Around with Flying Foxes 9. Tracy's Hypothesis 10. Along the Nectar Trail 11. In the Blink of an Eye Epilogue Appendix 1. A Brief Overview of Bat Diversity Appendix 2. Some Common and Scientific Names Used in the Text References Index

About the Author

Theodore H. Fleming is Professor of Biology at the University of Miami, author of The Short-Tailed Fruit Bat: A Study in Plant-Animal Interactions (1988) and coeditor with A. Valiente-Banuet of Columnar Cacti and Their Mutualists: Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation (2002), among other books.

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