Twin siblings sound alike: isolation call variation in the noctule bat, Nyctalus noctula

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1055-1063

  Knörnschild, Mirjam ^a   Von Helversen, Otto ^a   Mayer, Frieder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chiroptera; isolation calls; noctule bat; Nyctalus noctula; twins; vocal ontogeny; vocal signatures

Indexed keywords

BAT; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DIVERGENCE; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; ISOLATION EFFECT; ONTOGENY; RECOGNITION; SIBLING; VOCALIZATION;

CHIROPTERA; NYCTALUS NOCTULA;

EID: 35148880582     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.12.024     Document Type: Article

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