A dual function of echolocation: Bats use echolocation calls to identify familiar and unfamiliar individuals

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 59-67

  Voigt Heucke, Silke L ^a,b,c   Taborsky, Michael ^d   Dechmann, Dina K N ^a,e,f  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^f SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Chiroptera; Communication; Eavesdropping; Lesser bulldog bat; Noctilio albiventris; Recognition; Social behaviour

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; BAT; CALLING BEHAVIOR; ECHOLOCATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; RECOGNITION; ROOSTING; SONAR;

ANIMALIA; CHIROPTERA; NOCTILIO ALBIVENTRIS;

EID: 77953961174     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.03.025     Document Type: Article

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