TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jiménez, Saray
A1  - Hazevoet, Cornelis J.
T1  - First record of Straw-coloured fruit bat Eidolon helvum (Kerr, 1792) for the Cape Verde Islands
T2  - Zoologia Caboverdiana = Revista da Sociedade Cabo Veriana de Zoologia
N2  - On 8 September 2010, at 9:45 AM, a fruit bat was seen flying at a height of ca. 2 m over the sea off Ervatão, southeastern Boavista, Cape Verde Islands (16º 02’ N, 22º 41’ W). After a while, the animal landed in the beach vegetation. When captured, it did not offer any resistance to being handled and it was taken to the nearby sea turtle station, operated by the NGO Cabo Verde Natura 2000. The bat – which proved to be a female – was placed in an improvised cage made of plastic netting where it eagerly fed on the food provided, i.e. tomato, apple and banana. At 16:00 PM, the following biometric data were taken: head width 31.6 mm, humerus 81.1 mm, ulna 121.2 mm, tarsus 49.7 mm. When restrained for taking body measurements, the bat attempted to defend itself with its mouth.
KW  - Chiroptera
KW  - Pteropodidae
KW  - Eidolon helvum
KW  - Cape Verde Islands
KW  - distribution
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/36993
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-369930
SN  - 2074-5737
VL  - 1
IS  - 2
SP  - 116
EP  - 118
ER  -