Who are bats?​

 

Bats are not demons, angels or flying mice. They are mammals, like us and mice, and belong to the order Chiroptera. Bats are vital players in several ecosystem services, such as pollination, seed dispersal, and pest control, so they have huge ecological and economical importance. Currently, there are 174 bat species recorded in Brazil (Paglia et al. 2012) and over 1,200 in the world (N.B. Simmons, apud Kunz et al. 2011).

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Websites with information about Brazilian and Portuguese bats:

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• Casa dos Morcegos

• Projeto Morcego Livre

• Wikipédia, Morcego

• ​Morceguismos

• Projeto Morcegos Brasileiros

• Instituto Pasteur, Morcegos

• PCMBr: represents Brazil in RELCOM.

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Other scientific societies:

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• Sociedade Brasileira de Mastozoologia

• Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia

• Associação Brasileira de Ecologia e Conservação

• Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência

• American Society of Mammalogists

• Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation​