January 1987
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The Wilson Bulletin
This provides a recipe for a banana-based diet and tips on how to acclimate wild birds into captivity.
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... We utilized 30 bats for the study, housing them in three groups of ten individuals during three rounds of trials (see below). All bats acclimated to the flight cages the first two nights, where they were fed on a maintenance diet of water, agar powder (Eco-Taste), mashed ripe banana, soy protein isolate powder (Bulk Supplements), NaCl, CaHPO 4 (Eisen-Golden Laboratories), vegetable oil, and wheat germ (Bob's Red Mill), using the ingredient proportion suggested in Denslow et al. (1987). After finishing each nightly trial, which lasted approximately three and a half hours in total (see below), bats were fed 35 g of maintenance diet and water ad libitum. ...
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January 1987
The Wilson Bulletin