Do echolocation calls of wild colony-living Bechstein's bats (Myotis bechsteinii) provide individual-specific signatures?

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 443-454

  Siemers, Björn M ^a   Kerth, Gerald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Echolocation; Individual recognition; Relatedness; Vespertilionidae; Vocal signature

Indexed keywords

BAT; ECHOLOCATION; RECOGNITION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; MYOTIS BECHSTEINI; VESPERTILIONIDAE;

EID: 30744445706     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-005-0068-x     Document Type: Article

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