Behavioral evidence for eavesdropping on prey song in two Palearctic sibling bat species

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 333-340

  Jones, Patricia L ^a,b   Page, Rachel A ^a,c   Hartbauer, Manfred ^d   Siemers, Björn M ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Advertisement call; Bat; Eavesdropping; Myotis blythii oxygnathus; Myotis myotis; Niche partitioning; Orthoptera; Sensory ecology; Tettigonia cantans; Tettigonia viridissima

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BAT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; MATE ATTRACTION; NICHE PARTITIONING; PALEARCTIC REGION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SIBLING; SIGNAL; SONG; SYMPATRY;

EUROPE;

ARTHROPODA; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; MYOTIS; MYOTIS BLYTHII OXYGNATHUS; MYOTIS MYOTIS; ORTHOPTERA; TETTIGONIA CANTANS; TETTIGONIA VIRIDISSIMA; TETTIGONIIDAE;

EID: 78651496754     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-010-1050-9     Document Type: Article

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