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Stückle Druck und Verlag e.K., Ettenheim Mammalia 2018 | Volume 82 | Issue 3 Contents Original Studies Hojjat Eghbali, Saeed Shahabi, Nargess Najafi, Robab Mehdizadeh, Shetav Yousefi and Mozafar Sharifi S.S. Kolipaka, W.L.M. Tamis, M. van ‘t Zelfde, Postnatal growth, wing development and age G.A. Persoon and H.H. de Iongh estimations in the Mediterranean horseshoe bat New insights into the factors influencing movements Rhinolophus euryale (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) in and spatial distribution of reintroduced Bengal tigers Kerend cave, western Iran 276 (Panthera tigris tigris) in the human-dominated buffer zone of Panna Tiger Reserve, India 207 Yoshihiro Umemura, Shinsuke Koike, Chinatsu Kozakai, Koji Yamazaki, Yui Nemoto, Ami Nakajima, Mari Kohri, Pierre-Henri Fabre, Yuli S. Fitriana, Gono Semiadi, Shin Abe, Takashi Masaki and Koichi Kaji Marie Pagès, Ken Aplin, Nanang Supriatna Using a novel method of potential available energy to and Kristofer M. Helgen determine masting condition influence on sex-specific New record of Melomys burtoni (Mammalia, Rodentia, habitat selection by Asiatic black bears 288 Murinae) from Halmahera (North Moluccas, Indonesia): a review of Moluccan Melomys 218 Short Notes Boris Kryštufek, Cătălin Stanciu, Danijel Ivajnšič, Sidi Imad Cherkaoui and Franc Janžekovič Miguel E. Rodríguez-Posada, Darwin M. Morales- Facts and misconceptions on the Palaearctic existence Martínez, Diego R. Gutiérrez-Sanabria, María C. of the striped ground squirrel 248 Calderón-Capote and Camilo Fernández-Rodríguez New records of the rare bat Vampyressa melissa Thomas, Marcelo Oscar Bordignon and Julie Teresa Shapiro 1926 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae: Stenodermatinae) Bat diversity in the western Brazilian Pantanal 256 from the eastern slope of the Andes in the Colombian Orinoco basin 298 Ana Cláudia Delciellos, Ana Carolina Loss, Marcia Aguieiras, Lena Geise and Oscar Rocha-Barbosa Arivania S. Pereira, Patrício A. da Rocha, José Paulo Syntopy of cryptic Phyllomys (Rodentia: Echimyidae) Santana, Raone Beltrão, Juan Ruiz-Esparza species: description of the karyotype of Phyllomys and Stephen F. Ferrari nigrispinus and an expansion of the geographic Consumption of leaves by Carollia perspicillata distribution of Phyllomys sulinus 266 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae): a new dimension of the species’ feeding ecology 303.