Syllable acoustics, temporal patterns, and call composition vary with behavioral context in Mexican free-tailed bats

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1838-1848

  Bohn, Kirsten M ^a   Schmidt French, Barbara ^b   Ma, Sean T ^a   Pollak, George D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; MAMMALS;

COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION; EMISSION PATTERNS; TEMPORAL PATTERNING; VOCAL REPERTOIRE;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; COURTSHIP; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHIROPTERA; CUES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 52449096607     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2953314     Document Type: Article

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