Similar is not the same: Social calls of conspecifics are more effective in attracting wild bats to day roosts than those of other bat species

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2053-2063

  Schöner, Caroline Regina ^a   Schöner, Michael Gerhard ^a   Kerth, Gerald ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Communication; Eavesdropping; Echolocation; Playback; Roost finding; Social calls; Species discrimination

Indexed keywords

BAT; CALLING BEHAVIOR; CONSPECIFIC; ECHOLOCATION; FIELDWORK; ROOSTING; VIDEOGRAPHY; WILD POPULATION;

MYOTIS; MYOTIS BECHSTEINI; MYOTIS NATTERERI; PLECOTUS AURITUS;

EID: 78449276918     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-010-1019-8     Document Type: Article

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