Nonmutual vocal mother-pup recognition in the greater sac-winged bat

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1001-1009

  Knörnschild, Mirjam ^a   von Helversen, Otto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

antiphonal calling; Chiroptera; echolocation pulse; greater sac winged bat; multisyllabic isolation call; playback experiment; Saccopteryx bilineata; unidirectional offspring recognition; vocal signature

Indexed keywords

BAT; CALLING BEHAVIOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; KIN RECOGNITION; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; CHIROPTERA; MAMMALIA; SACCOPTERYX BILINEATA;

EID: 49149091660     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.05.018     Document Type: Article

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