Bat serenades - Complex courtship songs of the sac-winged bat (Saccopteryx bilineata)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 106-115

  Behr, Oliver ^a   Von Helversen, Otto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Courtship; Saccopteryx; Sexual selection; Song; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

BAT; COURTSHIP; POLYGYNY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONG; TERRITORIALITY;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

ANURA; EMBALLONURIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; PASSERI; SACCOPTERYX; SACCOPTERYX BILINEATA;

EID: 3042669416     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-004-0768-7     Document Type: Article

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