Evidence for a perception of prosodic cues in bat communication: Contact call classification by Megaderma lyra

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 195, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 663-672

  Janßen, Simone ^a   Schmidt, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Affect cues; Bat; Evolution of prosody; Identity cues

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BAT; FEMALE; FLYING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; CUES; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 67650306167     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-009-0441-8     Document Type: Article

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