Bats respond to polarity of a magnetic field

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1627, 2007, Pages 2901-2905

  Wang, Yinan ^a,b,e   Pan, Yongxin ^b   Parsons, Stuart ^c   Walker, Michael ^c   Zhang, Shuyi ^d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Hanging position; Nyctalus plancyi; Orientation; Polarity compass

Indexed keywords

BAT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; ROOSTING;

ARTICLE; BAT; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY TEST; MAGNETIC FIELD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRENGTH; VERTEBRATE;

MAMMALIA; NYCTALUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 35848948439     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0904     Document Type: Article

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