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This revised edition perpetuates the complementary areas of expertise of the contributing authors. These extend across behaviour (notably sonar and flight, MCS), biogeography (AM, FWC, PJT, MCS), ecology (AM, FWC, MCS, PJT), natural history, systematics and taxonomy (AM, FWC, PJT), and reproductive biology (FWC). Taxonomic revisions and biogeography continue to form the core of this work. These data are founded in the many years we have spent checking and working out identifications of museum specimens from Africa that are preserved in natural history collections worldwide. We visited collections as follows (where shared, we tended to focus on different chiropteran families):

Ara Monadjem: DM, KM, IICA, SMM, TM, BMNH, MNHN, SAM ZM, KM, MMK, NMB, ZMFK.

Peter Taylor: BMNH, DM, HZM, MNHN, MNKB, RMCA, SMM, TM.

Fenton Cotterill: AMNH, BMNH, CAS, CUMZ, FMNH, HZM, KM, LACM, MCZ, NMZB, ROM, RMCA, TM.

Our work in collections centred on compiling computer databases, which were merged for mapping. We have also carried out numerous bat surveys since the 1980s, focusing on complementary regions of Africa.