The effect of signal complexity on localization performance in bats that localize frog calls

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 761-769

  Page, Rachel A ^a,b   Ryan, Michael J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

eavesdropping; fringe lipped bat; localization performance; Physalaemus pustulosus; predator; prey; signal complexity; Trachops cirrhosus; t ngara frog

Indexed keywords

BAT; CALLING BEHAVIOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FROG; MATING BEHAVIOR; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY LOCATION; SIGNALING;

ANURA; PHYSALAEMUS PUSTULOSUS; TRACHOPS CIRRHOSUS;

EID: 49149115854     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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