Handedness in the echolocating Schreiber's Long-Fingered Bat (Miniopterus schreibersii)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 693-695

  Zucca, Paolo ^a   Palladini, Alessandra ^b   Baciadonna, Luigi ^c   Scaravelli, Dino ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bats; Echolocation; Handedness; Microchiroptera; Motor lateralization

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BAT; BONE; ECHOLOCATION; HANDEDNESS; LIMB; SENSORY SYSTEM;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; CLIMBING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HAND GRIP; HAND MOVEMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHIROPTERA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; FORELIMB; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY;

AVES; MAMMALIA; MICROCHIROPTERA; MINIOPTERUS SCHREIBERSII; MYOTIS CAPACCINII; PRIMATES;

EID: 77953911708     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.04.006     Document Type: Article

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