Development of vocalizations in the flat-headed bats, Tylonycteris pachypus and T. robustula (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)

Acta Chiropterologica

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 91-99

  Zhang, Libiao ^a,d   Jones, Gareth ^b   Parsons, Stuart ^c   Liang, Bing ^a   Zhang, Shuyi ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e GUANGZHOU INSTITUTES OF BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTH   (China)

Author keywords

Directive calls; Flat headed bats; Isolation calls; Precursor calls; T. robustula; Tylonycteris pachypus; Vocal development

Indexed keywords

BAT; VOCALIZATION;

CHIROPTERA; TYLONYCTERIS PACHYPUS; VESPERTILIONIDAE;

EID: 23044508205     PISSN: 15081109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3161/1733-5329(2005)7[91:DOVITF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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