Consumption of leaves by Platyrrhinus lineatus (Chiroptera, Stenodermatinae): are these bats primarily frugivorous or broadly phytophagous?

Rocha, Patrício Adriano da; Pereira, Arivania S.; Silvestre, Saulo M.; Santana, José Paulo; Beltão-Mendes, Raone; Zortéa, Marlon; Ferrari, Stephen F.

doi:10.1016/j.zool.2016.12.004

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“…The family Phyllostomidae is not only the second largest bat family, consisting of approximately 62 extant genera and 219 species, but it also remains unrivalled amongst mammalian families for its ecological and morphological radiation (Rex et al 2011;Monteiro and Nogueira 2011;Simmons and Cirranello 2019). Intricate partitioning of resources has cultivated sophisticated dietary specialization within the family which includes frugivory, folivory, insectivory, carnivory and nectarivory (Aguirre et al 2003;Monteiro and Nogueira 2011;Rocha et al 2017a), as well as the only three sanguivorous mammalian species (Zepeda Mendoza et al 2018).…”

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Echolocation of Central Amazonian ‘whispering’ phyllostomid bats: call design and interspecific variation

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Phyllostomids (New World leaf-nosed bats) are the ecologically most diverse bat family and have undergone the most extensive adaptive radiation of any mammalian family. However comprehensive, multi-species studies regarding phyllostomid echolocation are scarce in the literature despite abundant ecological research. In this study, we describe the call structure and interspecific variation in call design of 40 sympatric phyllostomid species from the Central Brazilian Amazon, focussing on general patterns within genera, subfamilies and between feeding guilds. All but one species utilized short, broadband FM calls consisting of multiple harmonics. As reported for other bat families, peak frequency was negatively correlated with body mass and forearm length. Twenty-five species alternated the harmonic of maximum energy, principally between the second and third harmonic. Based on PCA, we were unable to detect any significant differences in echolocation call parameters between genera, subfamilies or different feeding guilds, confirming that acoustic surveys cannot be used to reliably monitor these species. We present Ametrida centurio as an exception to this generalized phyllostomid structure, as it is unique in producing a mono-harmonic call. Finally, we discuss several hypotheses regarding the evolutionary pressures influencing phyllostomid call structure.

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“…To understand neotropical bats folivory, observational researches were initiated in the 1990s (ZORTÉA, 1993;ZORTÉA;MENDES, 1993;DIAZ, 1995). They were resumed some years later with observations at trees that had their leaves consumed, (BOBROWIEC; CUNHA, 2010) through the direct monitoring of colonies (RUIZ-RAMONI et al, 2011;CORDERO-SCHIMIDT et al, 2016;DUQUE--MÁRQUEZ et al, 2019), and also camera traps (ROCHA et al, 2016;PEREIRA et al, 2017). In addition to fieldwork, Kunz and Ingalls (1994) and Dudley and Vermeij (1994) compiled data from the literature on leaf-eating by bats and ranked some hypotheses to be tested.…”

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“…• 32 • nitoring colonies and feeding roosts with the aid of camera traps (SILVESTRE et al, 2016;ROCHA et al, 2016;PEREIRA et al, 2017), from direct observation (ZORTÉA; MENDES, 1993;DIAZ, 1995;CORDERO--SCHIMIDT et al, 2016;DUQUE-MÁRQUEZ et al, 2019), and from experimental tests (NELSON et al, 2005).…”

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“…There are still many uncertainties regarding folivory in bats, and there is no consensus, for example, if it is done only by specific groups within a colony (SAZIMA et al, 1994;DIAZ, 1995;NEL-SON et al, 2005;ROCHA et al, 2016), if there is a preference for a certain leaf age (ZORTÉA; MENDES, 1993;DIAZ, 1995;PEREIRA et al, 2017) or for a specific portion of the leaves (KUNZ; DIAZ, 1995;CORDERO-SCHIMIDT et al, 2016;DUQUE-MÁRQUEZ et al, 2019). The seasonality of this event is also unclear and debated (ZORTÉA; MENDES, 1993;FARIA, 1996;TAN et al, 1998;BOBROWIEC;CUNHA, 2010;RUIZ-RAMONI et al, 2011;CORDERO-SCHIMIDT et al, 2016).…”

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review of folivory by neotropical bats

Jorge¹,

Filho

Bianconi³

2023

ICSA

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Folivory by bats is done mainly by leaf fractionation, i.e., the chewed leaves are turned into a bolus which is then pressed against these mammals’ palates to obtain the liquid fraction dispensing the fibrous portion. In this work, folivory by neotropical bats was analyzed by carrying out a bibliographic research in Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Capes Periodicals academic databases with the following keywords and combinations: “Folivory" and "Bats"; "Leaves" and "Bats"; "Chiroptera" and "Folivory", for all years available up to 2019. This research returned 25 articles, 65.3% of which were carried out in Brazil. Most of them are occasional (56%), i.e., in which the main object of study was not folivory. Among those, leaf-eating by bats was described for nine species of neotropical bats, and Artibeus lituratus (Olfers, 1818) was the most extensively investigated species. The consumption of leaves by bats was described for 17 plant species. Only two articles pointed out the classes (age, reproductive and sexual) of the bats feeding on leaves; three investigated the foraging time; seven the seasonality; three sought to explain the reasons that contribute to folivory; and only one carried out an analysis of the chemical composition of the leaves. The preference for a determined leaf age was reported in three studies, whereas the folivory site (specific leaf portions preferably consumed) was described in four. Despite the increasing number of studies on folivory, there are still many gaps that limit the understanding of the real role of this behavior in the ecology of neotropical bats.

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“…Folivory has been reported in eight species of phyllostomid bats from the genera Artibeus (Leach 1821), Platyrrhinus (Saussure 1860) and Carollia (Gray 1838) (Greenhall 1957, Van der Pijl 1957, Zortéa and Mendes 1993, Kunz and Ingalls 1994, Kunz and Díaz 1995, Zortéa 1996, Bernard 1997, Esberard et al 1998, Aguiar 2005, Acosta and Aguanta 2006, Novaes and Nobre 2009, Bobrowiec and Cunha 2010, Ruiz-Ramoni et al 2011, Cordero-Schmidt et al 2016, da Rocha et al 2016, Pereira et al 2017. Most observations of leaf consumption document bats chewing small portions of the leaf, extracting the leaf liquids and discarding the remaining fibers (Kunz and Díaz 1995), with the exception of one case [Carollia perspicillata (Linnaeus 1758)] of young leaves which were consumed whole, presumably because they were less fibrous and more digestible (Pereira et al 2017).…”

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Unraveling the leaf-dropping behavior behind bat folivory: do bats use biological control against roost parasites?

Muñoz–Romo

Ramoni‐Perazzi

2019

Mammalia

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Folivory in bats, the behavior of chewing bites of leaves to extract the liquid portion and discard the fiber as oral pellets, is seen as a strategy that might provide vitamins, micronutrients and proteins not always available in fruits, and even secondary metabolites (hormonal precursors) that stimulate/inhibit reproductive processes. While examining chewed leaves, we noticed an important amount of completely intact leaves below the roosts of Artibeus amplus and Artibeus lituratus, and decided to systematically quantify them during a year. We recovered 639 intact leaves from six plant species and found that both species are constantly feeding on leaves, but invariably leaving 26–78% of these intact, dropping them on the floor just below their roosting sites. These large proportions of dropped, intact leaves suggest a completely different, novel, non-nutritional use by bats. Several studies in birds have revealed that fresh leaves are effectively used in nests to control diverse organisms that include blood suckling ectoparasites, protozoans, fungus and bacteria. We report for the first time this biological control behavior performed by bats by selecting, bringing and dropping intact leaves below their roosting sites. The chemical properties of the leaves need to be investigated to reveal those active components against specific pathogens.

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Consumption of leaves by Platyrrhinus lineatus (Chiroptera, Stenodermatinae): are these bats primarily frugivorous or broadly phytophagous?

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Echolocation of Central Amazonian ‘whispering’ phyllostomid bats: call design and interspecific variation

Echolocation of Central Amazonian ‘whispering’ phyllostomid bats: call design and interspecific variation

review of folivory by neotropical bats

Unraveling the leaf-dropping behavior behind bat folivory: do bats use biological control against roost parasites?

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