scholarly journals At the Lower Size Limit of Snakes Preying on Bats in the West Indies

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-15
Author(s):  
Tomás M. Rodríguez-Cabrera ◽  
Javier Torres ◽  
Ruben Marrero
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Minimum Size ◽  
The West ◽  
Size Limit ◽  
Total Length ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Lower Size

Bat predation by snakes has been repeatedly documented in the literature, particularly for boids and colubroids. In the West Indies, species of the genus Chilabothrus (Boidae) are the most frequently reported bat predators. However, bats are difficult to capture, and reports of bat-predating snakes smaller than 1 m in total length are very scarce. Herein we report bat predation in very young Cuban Boas (C. angulifer), the smallest of which represents the minimum size record for boid snakes preying on bats anywhere in the Neotropics. In contrast to most boids, the large size of neonatal Cuban Boas allows the consumption of endotherms as well as ectotherms soon after birth, including bats captured on the wing while exiting or entering caves.

Notes on the West Indies

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Pinckard
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
The West

Gerald H. Thayer's ornithological work in St Vincent and the Grenadines, Lesser Antilles

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Wiley
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lesser Antilles ◽  
American Museum ◽  
The West ◽  
Comparative Zoology ◽  
North And South America ◽  
North And South

Gerald Handerson Thayer (1883–1939) was an artist, writer and naturalist who worked in North and South America, Europe and the West Indies. In the Lesser Antilles, Thayer made substantial contributions to the knowledge and conservation of birds in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Thayer observed and collected birds throughout much of St Vincent and on many of the Grenadines from January 1924 through to December 1925. Although he produced a preliminary manuscript containing interesting distributional notes and which is an early record of the region's ornithology, Thayer never published the results of his work in the islands. Some 413 bird and bird egg specimens have survived from his work in St Vincent and the Grenadines and are now housed in the American Museum of Natural History (New York City) and the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Cambridge, Massachusetts). Four hundred and fifty eight specimens of birds and eggs collected by Gerald and his father, Abbott, from other countries are held in museums in the United States.

E.A. McDowell in the West Indies

1980 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-56
Author(s):  
Robert G. Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
The West
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