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  <dc:contributor>Terry A. Vaughan</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Thomas J. O'Shea</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1980</dc:date>
  <dc:description>The structure and ecology of bat faunas is a subject of interest to mammalogists (Findley, 1976; Wilson, 1973).  Syntopic African bat communities, however, have received little study in comparison with neotropical faunas (cf. Fleming &lt;i&gt;et al.&lt;/i&gt;, 1972; LaVal and Fitch, 1977; McNab, 1971).  Verschuren (1957) presented natural history information and species accounts for a localized central African bat fauna.  Foraging related characteristics of a Rhodesian community have also been analyzed (Fenton, 1975; Fenton &lt;i&gt;et al.&lt;/i&gt;, 1977), but not on a seasonal basis.  Other reports on African bat faunas are restricted to regional summaries (cf. Koopman, 1975 or Rosevear, 1965) and do not consider ecological aspects of a single localized community.  The purpose of our study was to follow species composition, reproduction, and foraging related characteristics of an East African bat fauna over a full annual cycle.</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1515/mamm.1980.44.4.485</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Muséum national d'histoire naturelle</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Ecological observations on an East African bat community</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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