Do Bats Drink Blood?: Fascinating Answers to Questions about Bats

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments We are grateful to the following people and organizations for allowing us to use their amazing illustrations and photographs for this book: the American Museum of Natural History in New York; Jesse Barber, Colorado State University; Alexander Baugh, University of Texas at Austin; Kirsten Bohn, University of Texas at Austin; Carol Bunyard and Gerald Carter, Cornell University ; David Chapman; Michael Durham; Shawn Gould; Harvey J. D. Garcia, Conservation International, Philippines; Amanda Lollar, Bat World Sanctuary; Beverly Rivera-Walters; and Merlin Tuttle, Bat Conservation International. Thanks to George West for the bat drawings on the title page and to Donna Buonaiuto for helping us connect with the fossil. We are grateful to Laura Redish, Native Languages of the Americas, for language translations and to Jesse Barber, Gerald Carter, Paul Cryan, and John Whitaker Jr. for their helpful suggestions as we wrote this book. The encouragement and support of our agent, Deirdre Mullane, and of our bat-enthusiast editor, Doreen Valentine, helped to make writing this book a rewarding experience. The authors enjoyed the opportunity to work together and to share our appreciation of bats with our readers. Do Bats Drink Blood? ...