Organochlorine Insecticide Residues in the Free-Tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) at Bracken Cave, Texas

Donald R. Clark, Chester O. Martin, Douglas M. Swineford

PubMed · 1975 · 26 citations · 8 references

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Fifty-nine free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana) collected at Bracken Cave, Texas, and analyzed for organochlorine insecticides and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Residues of DDE in the brain were greater in 12 young collected from the floor than in 15 young taken from the ceiling, but food deprivation, not higher residues in the brain, apparently caused young to fall. Among 18 pregnant females, residues of DDE and DDT were highest in yearlings. The first lactation by yearlings caused their residue loads to drop sharply. Thereafter, increasing age was accompanied by increasing residues but amounts generally did not exceed those in yearlings.

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