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REPRODUCTIVE patterns in bats fall into three main categories. A synchronous breeding season and monoestry is common in all holarctic bats1. Continual asynchronous breeding is found in some tropical bats of the families Desmodontidae2, Phyllostomatidae3, Pteropodidae, Emballonuridae and Molossidae4. In some palaeotropical bats seasonal polyoestry is the rule, with two synchronized breeding seasons each year4,5.
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WILSON, D., FINDLEY, J. Reproductive Cycle of a Neotropical Insectivorous Bat, Myotis nigricans. Nature 225, 1155 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/2251155a0
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