Social calls provide tree-dwelling bats with information about the location of conspecifics at roosts

Ethology

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 480-489

  Furmankiewicz, Joanna ^a   Ruczyński, Ireneusz ^b   Urban, Radosław ^a   Jones, Gareth ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; BAT; CALLING BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION NETWORK; CONSPECIFIC; ROOST SITE; SIGNAL; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; NYCTALUS NOCTULA;

EID: 79955778945     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01897.x     Document Type: Article

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