J. S. Fairley

TL;DR: There is some limited evidence that increased colony size, perhaps through social interaction, may have influenced timing of departure at dusk and return at dawn in lesser horseshoe bats Rhinolophus hipposideros.

TL;DR: Pygmy shrews were snap-trapped over one year in grassland and occasionally in other habitats, yielding data on tooth-wear, body and skull dimensions, moulting, reproduction, food and parasites, and it is postulated that Doratopsylla dasycnema is its intermediate host, allowing infection of young before they leave the nest.

TL;DR: The diet of the lesser horseshoe bat Rhinolophus hipposideros was investigated over one season by analysing faeces and discarded insect fragments collected on polythene sheets at eight roosts, finding Lepidoptera, Trichoptera and Neuroptera were the chief prey.

TL;DR: Seasonal variation in most of the metazoan parasites of a Wood mouse population was investigated by a statistical analysis of their frequencies in 11 samples of about 30 mice trapped regularly over one year.

TL;DR: Food and intraspecific aggression were the probable major factors in regulating population size, of mice at least, and cover probably modifies intrinsic mechanisms by reducing numbers of encounters between individuals.