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MammalBase - Standard Trait value: Volant

Standard Trait value: Volant


Standard Trait value: Volant
Standard Trait: Taxon: Locomotion: Eisenberg 1981 (n/a)
Standard Trait value: Volant
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Description: Category 5 is the volant specialization, where the animal can fly. This category is confined to a single order, the Chiroptera. I do not include any of the gliding forms within this specialization; they will be considered a subset of the arboreal category. Adaptation for flight may have occurred only once in the evolution of mammals, if one considers a monophyletic origin for the Chiroptera.
Table 1. List of Source Trait values related with Volant.
Published Trait Trait value Reference
Taxon - Substrate 1) Flying frugivores McNab,B. K., 1986, The influence of food habits on the energetics of eutherian mammals, Ecological Monographs
Taxon - Locomotor Volant Paglia,A. P., 2012, Lista Anotada dos Mamíferos do Brasil 2ª Edição Annotated Checklist of Brazilian Mammals,
Taxon - Spatial habits Vo, volant Medellín,R. A., 1994, Mammal diversity and conservation in the Selva Lacandona, Chiapas, Mexico, Conservation Biology
Taxon - Guild AEI, aerial insectivores Arriaga-Flores, J.C., Castro-Arellano, I., Moreno-Valdez, A. and Correa-Sandoval, A., 2012. Temporal niche overlap of a riparian forest bat assemblage in subtropical Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Mastozoología (Nueva Época), 2(1), pp.3-17.
Taxon - Guild HFI, high flying insectivores, high flying insectivores Arriaga-Flores, J.C., Castro-Arellano, I., Moreno-Valdez, A. and Correa-Sandoval, A., 2012. Temporal niche overlap of a riparian forest bat assemblage in subtropical Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Mastozoología (Nueva Época), 2(1), pp.3-17.