Naïve bats discriminate arctiid moth warning sounds but generalize their aposematic meaning

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 212, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 2141-2148

  Barber, Jesse R ^a,c   Chadwell, Brad A ^a   Garrett, Nick ^a   Schmidt French, Barbara ^b   Conner, William E ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic mimicry; Arctiidae; Bats; Bioacoustics; Kinematics; Moths

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BAT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ECHOLOCATION; MOTH; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SOUND;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHIROPTERA; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ECHOLOCATION; MOTHS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOUND;

ARCTIIDAE; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; LASIURUS BOREALIS; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 67650085857     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.029991     Document Type: Article

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