microbats

These are mostly small mammals such as microbats, rodents, rabbits, and small mustelids.

Hokkaido deciduous forests 2008

These are mostly small mammals such as microbats, rodents, rabbits, and small mustelids.

Hokkaido montane conifer forests 2007

The maid apologised for the drinking-water, saying the "microbats" made it dark coloured.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

Also extinct plasma-quaffing microbats, and maybe pterosaurs (again).

The evolution of vampires Darren Naish 2007

Also extinct plasma-quaffing microbats, and maybe pterosaurs (again).

Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007

The accompanying image by Peter Schouten [click for larger version], commissioned by John Pettigrew, depicts the 'flying primate' hypothesis in graphic form: note that colugos and megabats branch off from the primate lineage, and aren't alongside microbats.

Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

In more detailed papers, Pettigrew (1991) and Pettigrew et al. (1989) marshaled evidence from eye, brain and spinal cord anatomy, fore - and hindlimb, finger and metacarpal proportions, and haemoglobin sequences, and again concluded that megabats and primates shared a common ancestor, and that microbats were not close relatives of megabats, but that their affinities lay elsewhere.

Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

For previous posts on bats see Greater noctules: specialist predators of migrating passerines and Chewed bones and bird-eating microbats.

Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

Microbat paraphyly and the convergent evolution of a key innovation in Old World rhinolophoid microbats.

Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

Phylogenetic relations between microbats, megabats and primates (Mammalia: Chiroptera and Primates).

Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006