Comparative analyses suggest that information transfer promoted sociality in male bats in the temperate zone

American Naturalist

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 465-472

  Safi, Kamran ^a   Kerth, Gerald ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chiroptera; Group living; Information center; Local enhancement; Sexual segregation; Social system

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BAT; COLONIAL BREEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; EUROPE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLYING; FORELIMB; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; CLIMATE; DIET; EUROPE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WING;

ANIMALIA; CHIROPTERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 34548164315     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/520116     Document Type: Article

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