order chiroptera

Question 1

What is the Second-largest mammalian order?

Answer 1

Chiroptera

Question 2

Chiroptera is divided into what 2 suborders?

Answer 2

Yinpterochiroptera and

Yangochiroptera

Question 3

Bat flight is relatively slow, but

Answer 3

highly maneverable

Question 4

Bat’s wings provide

Answer 4

thrust and lift

Question 5

What generates lift?

Answer 5

unequal pressures above and below the wing

Question 6

Bats have low

Answer 6

aspect wings

Question 7

In bats downstroke

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is power stroke

Question 8

In bats, wing tips

Answer 8

are twisted out and provide thrust

Question 9

only nectar feeding bats can hover:

Answer 9

energetically expensive, downstroke oriented forward, upstroke directed backwards

Question 10

High Aspect Ratio VS. Low Aspect Ratio
wings?
flight?
ground?
diet?

Answer 10

H long narrow; L short wide

H fast sustained, L slow maneuverable

H forage high above; L forage lower to

H open habitats; L dense vegetation

Question 11

Non-echolocating bats are in what family?

Answer 11

Family Pteropodidae

Question 12

In the Family Pteropodidae

the ears?

Answer 12

lack tragus

Question 13

In the Family Pteropodidae the digits are?

Answer 13

Two-clawed wing

Question 14

The Family Pteropodidae roost

Answer 14

in colonies in trees and travel long distances to feed

Question 15

Hypsignathus monstrosus (apart of) have massive

Answer 15

Pteropodidae
vocal apparatus in males
and males form communal leks, singing for sex

Question 16

Lactation occurs in

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male fruit bats

Question 17

Pteropodidae are known as

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old world fruit bats

Question 18

The Family Craseonycteridae is from

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Thailand and Myanmar and is highly endangered

Question 19

The Family Craseonycteridae roost

Answer 19

in caves, forage by gleaning.

Question 20

The Family Megadermatidae have large

Answer 20

ears and bifurcated tragus

Question 21

The Family Megadermatidae have nose

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leaf on snout

Question 22

The Family Megadermatidae hunt

Answer 22

by sight and by eavesdropping

Question 23

The Family Megadermatidae is known as

Answer 23

false vampire and is from Africa, Asia, and Australia.

Question 24

The Family Hipposideridae

is from

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Old World

Question 25

The Hipposideros gigas (of) is one of the

Answer 25

Family Hipposideridae | largest insectivorous bats

Question 26

The Family Hipposideridae | emits

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echolocation signals | through nostrils

Question 27

The Family Hipposideridae | has complex

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nasal folds that helps | focus pulses

Question 28

The Family Hipposideridae | have large

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ears that lack tragus

Question 29

The Family Hipposideridae | have a powerful

Answer 29

braced pectoral girdle

Question 30

The Family Rhinolophidae is known as

Answer 30

horseshoe bats, refers to skin fold on nose, and is from the old world

Question 31

The Family Rhinolophidae are colonial

Answer 31

to solitary

Question 32

The Family Emballonuridae is known as

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sac-winged bats or sheath-tailed bats and are from Africa, Asia, Australia, Neotropics

Question 33

The Family Emballonuridae has a glandular

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sac on propatagium

Question 34

The Family Emballonuridae has white

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dorsal stripes

Question 35

The Family Emballonuridae occupy

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houses, caves, trees, undersides of rocks

Question 36

The family Myzopodidae is known as

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sucker footed bats and is from Madagascar

Question 37

The family Myzopodidae have very large

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ears, mushroom shaped structure similar to tragus

Question 38

The family Myzopodidae thumb and sole of foot

Answer 38

have sucker disks which function by gluing

Question 39

The family Mystacinidae are endemic to

Answer 39

New Zealand

Question 40

The family Mystacinidae roost

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in holes in trees or in the ground

Question 41

The family Mystacinidae breed

Answer 41

in leks

Question 42

The Family Phyllostomidae | are the most

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diverse (ecologically) bat family

Question 43

The Family Phyllostomidae are known as

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leaf nosed bats and are from the Neotropics

Question 44

The Family Phyllostomidae wide diversity: - large and carnivorous - specializes on blood - specializes on frogs - feeds on nectar - feeds on fruits

Answer 44

``` – Vampyrum – Desmodus – Trachops – Choeronycteris – Artibeus ```

Question 45

The subfamily Desmodontinae (of)

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family Phyllostomidae | are vampire bats and the skull and dentition are highly specialized

Question 46

The Family Phyllostomidae | detect

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local temperature differences on skin to | locate blood vessel near surface

Question 47

The Family Phyllostomidae | have anticoagulant

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in saliva retards clotting

Question 48

The Family Molossidae is known as

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free tailed bats from Europe, Asia, Australia, New World

Question 49

The Family Molossidae the shoulder

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and forearm adaptations for flight

Question 50

The Family Molossidae has wing that is

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long and narrow for high speed flight

Question 51

The Family Molossidae the ears

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are broad and project side to side to reduce drag during flight

Question 52

The Family Molossidae fly

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far and high up to 3,000m to forage

Question 53

The Family Molossidae roost known as

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in massive colonies in caves

Question 54

The Family Vespertilionidae are known as

Answer 54

Vespertilionid bats and are world wide distribution

Question 55

Nyctalus lasiopterus and Ia io (of) feed on birds

Answer 55

Vespertilionidae | rest insectivorous