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Fleming, Theodore Harris was born on March 27, 1942 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Maynard Harris and Helen Catherine (Patterson) Fleming.
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As dusk settles over the Costa Rican forest, the short-tailed fruit bat, Carollia perspicillata, stirs from its cave roost. Flying out to search for ripe fruit, Carollia returns to a night roost in the forest vegetation to eat. After a few such flights Carollia rests, and the fruits pass through its short digestive tract. The seeds are excreted onto the ground, to be eaten in turn by mice and insects, but a few are pushed into crevices where they await the necessary conditions for germination. In The Short-tailed Fruit Bat, Theodore Fleming examines Carollia's role in the ecology of tropical forests. Based on more than ten years' research, this study provides the most detailed ecological and evolutionary account to date of the life history of a Neotropical mammal and includes striking photographs of the bats in flight.
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Fleming, Theodore Harris was born on March 27, 1942 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Maynard Harris and Helen Catherine (Patterson) Fleming.
Bachelor, Albion College, 1964; Master of Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1969.
Teaching fellow University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1965. Systematic zoologist Smithsonian Institution, Panama Canal Zone, 1966-1967. From assistant to associate professor University Missouri, St. Louis, 1969-1978.
From associate professor to professor University Miami, since 1978. Board directors Organization for Tropical Studies, Durham, North Carolina, 1979-1985. Member advisory panel National Science Foundation, Washington District of Columbia, 1990-1992.
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Member Association for Tropical Biology (councilor 1988-1989), Ecological Society of America, American Society Naturalists, American Society Mammalogists (Best Student Paper award 1969).
Married Marcia Clare Strandberg, August 14, 1965. Children: Michael Scott, Cara Marie.