- Title
- Seasonally monoestrous reproduction in the molossid bat, Tadarida aegyptiaca from low temperate latitudes (33 S) in South Africa
- Creator
- Bernard, Ric T F
- Creator
- Tsita, Johannes N
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 1995
- Date
- 1995
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/447333
- Identifier
- vital:74611
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02541858.1995.11448366
- Description
- A histological study of reproduction in Egyptian free-tailed bats (Tadarida aegyptiaca) Irom the Eastern Cape Province of South Alrica (c. 33°S) showed that females were seasonally monoestrous. Copulation, ovulation and lerlilizalion occurred in August, at the encf of winter, and births in December, after a four-month pregnancy. These results are compared with those of other molossid bats from tower latitudes in Africa. We conclude that the monoestrous habit of the Egyptian Iree-tailed bat at 33°S may be due to its relatively long pregnancy, and to the short summer period during which minimum temperatures are high enough to ensure an abundance of nocturnal flying insects.
- Format
- 5 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- African Zoology
- Relation
- Bernard, R.T.F. and Tsita, J.N., 1995. Seasonally monoestrous reproduction in the molossid bat, Tadarida aegyptiaca from low temperate latitudes (33 S) in South Africa. South African Journal of Zoology, 30(1), pp.18-22
- Relation
- African Zoology volume 30 number 3 18 22 1995 2224-073X
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