Individual specific contact calls of pallid bats (Antrozous pallidus) attract conspecifics at roosting sites

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1581-1593

  Arnold, Bryan D ^a   Wilkinson, Gerald S ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Fission fusion; Signature call; Vespertilionid bat

Indexed keywords

BAT; CALLING BEHAVIOR; CONSPECIFIC; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GROUP BEHAVIOR; MATE RECOGNITION; MOVEMENT; ROOST SITE; ROOSTING; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANTROZOUS; ANTROZOUS PALLIDUS; AVES; MAMMALIA; VESPERTILIONIDAE;

EID: 79960167345     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-011-1168-4     Document Type: Article

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