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Rediscovery of the Mexican flat-headed bat Myotis planiceps (Vespertilionidae)

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The first objective of this study was to determine if it could find a living population or populations of this species, and if extant populations were discovered, to define the species’ current conservation status in accordance with standards proposed by IUCN (2004).
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The insectivorous flat-headed bat Myotis planiceps (Vespertilionidae) is an endemic species apparently restricted to a very small area, known only from three specimens collected between 1952 and 1970 in Madrean pine-oak woodland in three adjacent states in north-central Mexico: Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Zacatecas (Matson, 1975). Myotis planiceps was once considered extinct by IUCN (Baillie and Groombridge, 1996), but more recently its status was changed to Critically Endangered (IUCN, 2004). The first objective of our study was to determine if we could find a living population or populations of this species. If extant populations were discovered, then further investigations were warranted, including detailed distribution, habitat requirements, dietary habits, and roosting behavior, to define the species’ current conservation status in accordance with standards proposed by IUCN (2004).

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Lista actualizada de los mamíferos de méxico

TL;DR: An up-to-date list of the native mammals from Mexico, both terrestrial and marine, is provided, including data on their conservation status in accordance with federal or international regulations; the presence of island populations; and the origen affinities as mentioned in this paper.
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Placement of the rediscovered Myotis planiceps (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) within the Myotis phylogeny

TL;DR: To elucidate the placement of M. planiceps within the Myotis phylogeny, sequenced 1,140 base pairs of the mitochondrial cytochrome-b gene (Cytb) and 1,148 bps of the nuclear Recombination Activating Gene 2 (rag2) from 7 samples collected from 4 different localities in north-central Mexico and performed maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian analyses.
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Estado de conservación de Melanomys zunigae (Sanborn 1949) y de los mamíferos pequeños en las Lomas de Lima

TL;DR: In this article, a study of the presence of Melanomys zunigae in the area of Atocongo and San Jeronimo in Peruanos, based on un trampeo no exhaustivo and posteriormente en un analisis de regurgitos de la lechuza de los arenales (Athene cunicularia), no registramos ningun individuo de M. zungae; sin embargo, encontramos evidencias que el impacto de la expansion urbana
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Summer roosts of “The revenant” flat-headed myotis, Myotis planiceps

TL;DR: In this article, the flat-headed myotis (Myotis planiceps) was declared extinct in 1996 but rediscovered in 2004, thus the reference to a revenant, one who came back from the dead.
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1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals

TL;DR: The "1994 Red List of Threatened Animals" as mentioned in this paper was a major advance on its predecessors in clarity of layout and amount of information presented, and was taken further in the 1996 edition, which was also the first global compilation to use the complete new IUCN red list category system.
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Echolocation by insect-eating bats

TL;DR: This article describes the echolocation behavior of insect-eating bats and shows how differing circumstances such as habitat type, foraging mode, and diet favor different signal types, and outlines the perceptual tasks that must be performed by foraging bats.
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Mammals of the Eastern United States

TL;DR: Almost entirely rewritten, this edition provides an abundance of scientific information in combination with anecdotes, field notes, and an underlying reverence for the fragile diversity of animal life.
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Plasticity in echolocation signals of European pipistrelle bats in search flight: implications for habitat use and prey detection

TL;DR: An overlap-free “window” within which pipistrelles may detect potential prey and which allows predictions of minimum distances to prey and clutter-producing objects is proposed.
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