caa a22 4500 378895419 CHVBK 20180305123505.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/mamm.2004.027 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/mamm.2004.027 Sharifi Mozafar Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Razi University, Kermanshah, 67149 (Iran) Postnatal growth in Myotis blythii (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) [Elektronische Daten] [Mozafar Sharifi] The length of the forearm, the body mass and the length of the total gap of the fourth metacarpal-phalangeal joint were measured in order to develop empirical growth curves for a free-ranging population of the lesser mouseeared bat Myotis blythii in a maternity colony in western Iran. Length of forearm and body mass followed a linear pattern of growth until day 14 (at mean rates of 1.44 mm/day and 0.43 g/day respectively), and subsequently decreased to reach a stable level. The length of the total gap of the metacarpalphalangeal joint increased up to 10 days and decreased when it closed at over 70 days. Initiation of flight occurred 3-4 weeks after birth. A method of estimation of age was derived from values of length of forearm and the total gap of the fourth metacarpal-phalangeal joint during the preflight and post flight periods. Copyright 2004, Walter de Gruyter Myotis blythii nationallicence Chiroptera nationallicence growth nationallicence body mass nationallicence forearm nationallicence metacarpal-phalangeal joint nationallicence Mammalia Walter de Gruyter 68/4(2004-12-01), 283-289 0025-1461 68:4<283 2004 68 mamm https://doi.org/10.1515/mamm.2004.027 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/mamm.2004.027 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sharifi Mozafar Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Razi University, Kermanshah, 67149 (Iran) NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Mammalia Walter de Gruyter 68/4(2004-12-01), 283-289 0025-1461 68:4<283 2004 68 mamm CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter