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Kansas African Studies Center Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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First records of 10 bat species in Guyana and comments on diversity of bats in Iwokrama Forest
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What constitutes a proper description?
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Predation by and activity patterns of ‘parasitic’ beetles of the genus Amblyopinus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)
(Journal of Zoology (London), 1987-07)This study explores the relationship between staphylinid beetles of the genus Amblyopinus and their small mammal hosts. Previous studies had concluded that these beetles were parasitic and fed directly on blood, skin ... -
The mystery of the gracious hosts
(Natural History Magazine, 1988-09) -
Hoplopleura janzeni n. sp. (Phthiraptera: Anoplura), a new sucking louse from a Central American swimming mouse
(Journal of Parasitology, 2001-12)Both sexes of a new species of sucking louse Hoplopleura janzeni (Phthiraptera: Hoplopleuridae) are described and illustrated from the Central American ichthyomyine swimming mouse Rheomys raptor (Rodentia: Muridae) collected ... -
Swimming ability in three Costa Rican dry forest rodents
(Revista de Biología Tropical, 2001-12)We investigated the swimming abilities of three Costa Rican dry forest rodents (Coues' rice rat. Oryzomys couesi, hispid cotton rat, Sigmodon hispidus, and spiny pocket mouse, Liomys salvini) associated with a large marsh, ... -
Pseudonovibos spiralis (Artiodactyla: Bovidae): new information on this enigmatic South-east Asian ox
(Journal of Zoology (London), 2001-02)Two bovid frontlets with horns collected in 1929 and now housed in the collections of the University of Kansas Natural History Museum (KU) from Suoi Kiet, Binh Tuy Province, Vietnam, were previously identified as koupreys ... -
Tropical dry-forest mammals of Palo Verde: Ecology and conservation in a changing landscape
(University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004-02)More than 114 species of mammals originally were present in Costa Rica’s tropical dry forest, and perhaps 110 species are still found there today. Bats are the most diverse group, with more than 66 species, followed by ... -
Ectophylla alba
(Mammalian Species, American Society of Mammalogists, 1982-05) -
West Indian mammals from the Albert Schwartz Collection: Biological and historical information
(University of Kansas Natural History Museum, 2003-06)In the period 1954-1976, Albert Schwartz and several students working with him made extensive collections of mammals (ca. 2,000 specimens), reptiles and amphibians, birds, and butterflies in the West Indies. Schwartz's ... -
Predation on nestling Bare-throated Tiger-Herons by a Great Black-Hawk
(Journal of Neotropical Ornithology, 1991-12) -
Tent-making by Artibeus jamaicensis (Chiroptera: Phyllostomatidae) with comments on plants used by bats for tents
(Biotropica, 1976-12)Four species of bats have been reported to modify leaves of various plants to produce tents for daytime roosts. Herein we report tent-making by a fifth species, Artibeus jamaicensis (Chiroptera: Phyllostomatidae) In addition ... -
Selection of roost sites by Honduran white bats, Ectophylla alba (Chiroptera: Phyllostomatidae)
(Ecological Society of America, 1976-04)Ectophylla alba H. Allen (Chiroptera: Phyllostomatidae), the Honduran white bat, was found to alter the leaves of five species of Heliconia (H. imbricata, H. laptispatha, H. pogonantha, H. tortuosa, and an undescribed ... -
Observations on feeding behavior in the vesper mouse, Nyctomys sumichrasti
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Mammals of the Cosigüina Peninsula of Nicaragua
(Mastozoología Neotropical, 2005-12)Nicaragua’s Cosigüina Peninsula, located at the northwestern tip of the country, is one of the most poorly studied biotic regions in Central America. The peninsula has been occupied for millennia because the climate of ... -
Rediscovery, ecology, and identification of rare free-tailed bats (Chiroptera: Molossidae) in Costa Rica
(Acta Chiropterologica, 2008-06)Five new specimens ofthe poorly known Sanborn's bonneted bat, Eumops hansae (Chiroptera: Molossidae), are reported for Costa Rica's central and northern Pacific lowlands based on a subadult male collected in 1990 and four ... -
Phylogeny of plecotine bats (Chiroptera: “Vespertilionidae”): summary of the evidence and proposal of a logically consistent taxonomy
(American Museum of Natural History, 1992-02)Using standard phylogenetic techniques, 25 transformation series of morphological characters and 11 of karyological characters are evaluated in an attempt to recover the phylogenetic history of plecotine vespertilionid ... -
Annotated checklist of the mammals of Cuzco Amazónico, Peru
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Historical distribution of the extinct tropical seal, Monachus tropicalis (Carnivora: Phocidae)
(Conservation Biology, 1997-04)