Experimental evidence for group hunting via eavesdropping in echolocating bats

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1668, 2009, Pages 2721-2728

  Dechmann, Dina K N ^a,b,c   Heucke, Silke L ^a,d   Giuggioli, Luca ^e,f   Safi, Kamran ^g   Voigt, Christian C ^a   Wikelski, Martin ^b,c,h  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Information transfer; Network; Noctilio albiventris; Sociality

Indexed keywords

WATER;

BAT; ECHOLOCATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP BEHAVIOR; INSECT; INSECTIVORE; NETWORK ANALYSIS; PREY CAPTURE; SWARMING; VISUAL CUE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; FORAGING; HEARING; INFORMATION; INSECT SWARM; MAMMAL; NOCTILIO ALBIVENTRIS; NOCTURNAL ANIMAL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; NOCTILIO ALBIVENTRIS;

EID: 67650901550     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0473     Document Type: Article

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