Greater spear-nosed bats discriminate group mates by vocalizations

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1717-1732

  Boughman, Janette Wenrick ^a   Wilkinson, Gerald S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAT; DISCRIMINATION ABILITY; SOCIAL GROUP; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; CHIROPTERA; PHYLLOSTOMUS HASTATUS;

EID: 0032104462     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0721     Document Type: Article

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