Title:

Digestion, defecation and food passage rate in the insectivorous bat Myotis myotis

Creator:

Staliński, J.

Place of publishing:

Białowieża

Date issued/created:

1994

Description:

The coefficient of dry mass digestibility (DMD) in the insectivorous bat Myotis myotis (Borkhausen, 1797), fed American cockroaches, is 69.3%. This is comparable with the average digestibility and assimilation coefficients in insectivorous mammals and birds, but it is much lower than estimated in previous studies on insectivorous bats. The rate of passage of food marked with basic fuchsin (t5=25, t50=44, t90=77 minutes) and the defecation rate indicate extremely rapid digestion of food, which is connected with the feeding and foraging strategies of insectivorous bats. It is concluded, that previous estimations of bats' food consumption under natural conditions were lowered by the assumption of high digestibility of food or insignificant amount of feces defecated outside the rest place.

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

assimilation efficiency ; bats ; Chiroptera ; digestion ; feeding strategy ; food ; digestibility ; defecation ; Myotis myotis ; Insectivora ; owadożerne ; strawność ; pokarm ; defekacja ; nietoperz ; Nocek duży

Relation:

Acta Theriologica

Volume:

39

Issue:

1

Start page:

1

End page:

11

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

10.4098/AT.arch.94-1

Source:

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Language:

eng ; Sum. eng.

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. May be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms

Digitizing institution:

Mammal Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Mammal Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Programme Innovative Economy, 2010-2014, Priority Axis 2. R&D infrastructure ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund

Access:

Open