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First Record of Albinism in the Nine-banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus)
François Fabianek*
*Centre d’Étude de la Forêt et Faculté de Géographie, Foresterie et Géomatique, Université Laval, 2405, rue de la Terrasse, Québec, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada, andGroupe Chiroptères du Québec, 734, rue Deligny, Québec, QC, G1R 3A3, Canada.
Caribbean Naturalist, No. 21 (2014)
Abstract
I evaluated the diet of two colonies of Artibeus jamaicensis (Jamaican Fruit Bat) from December 2013 to January 2014, along the western seashore of Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica. Fruits of Terminalia catappa (Tropical Almond) and Adonidia merrillii (Christmas Palm) formed the bulk of the diet, followed by fruits of Manilkara zapota (Sapodilla), Melicoccus bijugatus (Guinep), and Coccoloba uvifera (Seaside Grape), in that order. I also recorded echolocation calls of Jamaican Fruit Bats consuming ripe Artocarpus altitis (Breadfruit) during eight nocturnal surveys around feeding sites. This is the first record of Jamaican Fruit Bat consuming Christmas Palm fruit and the first mention of Breadfruit consumption by a frugivorous bat in the Caribbean islands.
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