Azorean bats Nyctalus azoreum, cluster as they emerge from roosts, despite the lack of avian predators

Acta Chiropterologica

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 185-192

  Irwin, Nancy R ^a   Speakman, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bats; Behaviour; Clustering; Emergence; Group feeding; Predation

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BAT; EMERGENCE; PREDATION RISK; ROOST SITE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AZORES; EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AVES; FELIS; FELIS CATUS; GALLIFORMES; MAMMALIA; NYCTALUS; NYCTALUS AZOREUM; RAPTORES; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 1142268976     PISSN: 15081109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3161/001.005.0203     Document Type: Article

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