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About bats:

  • Images: Photographs of fancy chauves-souris from around the world.
  • Species List: This is a list of all 91 bat species (out of around 1,116) which Dan has seen in the wild.

About Dan Riskin:

  • Publications:
   

Williams, W. O., Riskin, D. K., and Mott, K. M. (2008). Ultrasonic sound measurement as an indicator of acute pain in laboratory mice. Journal of the American Association of Laboratory Animal Scientists 47, 8-10.

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Willis, D. J., Kostandov, M., Riskin, D. K., Peraire, J., Laidlaw, D. H., Swartz, S. M., and Breuer, K. S. 2007. Modeling the flight of a bat (science visualization feature). Science 317: 1860.

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Press: Science Magazine

   

Rypien, K. L., Anderson, J., Andras, J., Clark, R. W., Gerrish, G. A., Mandel, J. T., Nydam, M. L. and Riskin, D. K. (2007). Correspondence: Students unite to create State of the Planet course. Nature 447, 775.

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Swartz, S. M., Iriarte-Diaz, J., Riskin, D. K., Song, A., Tian, X., Willis, D. J. & Breuer, K. S. (2007) Wing structure and the aerodynamic basis of flight in bats. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal 42, 1-10.

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Riskin, D. K., Parsons, S., Schutt, W. A. Jr., Carter, G. G., and Hermanson, J. W. (2006). Terrestrial locomotion of the New Zealand Short-tailed Bat Mystacina tuberculata and the Common Vampire Bat Desmodus rotundus. Journal of Experimental Biology 209, 1725-1736.

(PDF; Movie 1; Movie 2)
Press: Inside JEB

 

Carter, G. G., and Riskin, D. K. (2006). Mystacina tuberculata. Mammalian Species 790, 1-8.

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Riskin, D. K., Bertram, J. E. A. and Hermanson, J. W. (2005). Testing the hindlimb-strength hypothesis: Non-aerial locomotion by Chiroptera is not constrained by the dimensions of the femur or tibia. Journal of Experimental Biology 208, 1309-1319.

(PDF; Journal Cover)
Press: Inside JEB

   

Riskin, D. K. and Hermanson, J. W. (2005). Independent evolution of running in vampire bats. Nature 434, 292.

(PDF; Movie; Image Sequence)
Press: Discovery Channel, ScienCentral, CBC As It Happens, CBC Quirks & Quarks, LA Times, NY Times
; Discover Magazine

 

Riskin, D. K. and Fenton, M. B. (2001). Sticking ability in Spix's disk-winged bat, Thyroptera tricolor (Microchiroptera: Thyropteridae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 79, 2261-2267.

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Press: Natural History Magazine

   

Riskin, D. K. (2001). Pipistrellus bodenheimeri. Mammalian Species 651, 1-3.

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Fenton, M. B., Bernard, E., Bouchard, S., Hollis, L., Johnston, D. S., Lausen, C. L., Ratcliffe, J. M., Riskin, D. K., Taylor, J. R. and Zigouris, J. (2001). The bat fauna of Lamanai, Belize: roosts and trophic roles. Journal of Tropical Ecology 17, 511-524.

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Press: Discovery Channel

 

Fenton, M. B., Vonhof, M. J., Bouchard, S., Gill, S. A., Johnston, D. S., Reid, F. A., Riskin, D. K., Standing, K. L., Taylor, J. R. and Wagner, R. (2000). Roosts used by Sturnira lilium (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in Belize. Biotropica 32, 729-733.

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Riskin, D. K. and Pybus, M. J. (1998). The use of exposed diurnal roosts in Alberta by the little brown bat, Myotis lucifugus. Canadian Journal of Zoology 76, 767-770.

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