Seventeen Species of Bats Recorded from Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone

"Seventeen Species of Bats Recorded from Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone" by E. Raymond Hall is a scientific study that examines the diverse bat population of Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal Zone in the early 1950s. This book is all about updating the list of bat species by describing how researchers captured the bats, mostly with silk net, and what they learned about their behaviors and what kind of homes they liked. The book goes through each of the seventeen kinds of bats discovered on the island, writing about what they saw, including how much they weighed and whether they were breeding. The goal is to highlight the island’s biodiversity and why it is important to protect these animals and their habitat.