Social Transmission of Novel Foraging Behavior in Bats: Frog Calls and Their Referents

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1201-1205

  Page, Rachel A ^a,b   Ryan, Michael J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

EVO_ECOL

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TOAD; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BUFO MARINUS; CHIROPTERA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANURA; TRACHOPS CIRRHOSUS;

EID: 33744996956     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.04.038     Document Type: Article

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