Territorial songs indicate male quality in the sac-winged bat Saccopteryx bilineata (Chiroptera, Emballonuridae)

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 810-817

  Behr, Oliver ^a   Von Helversen, Otto ^a   Heckel, Gerald ^b   Nagy, Martina ^a   Voigt, Christian C ^c   Mayer, Frieder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Chiroptera; Microsatellites; Parentage analysis; Saccopteryx bilineata; Sexual selection; Territorial song

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; BAT; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MALE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; ROOSTING; TERRITORY;

ANIMALIA; CHIROPTERA; EMBALLONURIDAE; SACCOPTERYX BILINEATA;

EID: 33747822546     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arl013     Document Type: Article

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