Social learning of a novel foraging task by big brown bats, Eptesicus fuscus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1075-1083

  Wright, Genevieve Spanjer ^a   Wilkinson, Gerald S ^a   Moss, Cynthia F ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Big brown bat; Eptesicus fuscus; Feeding buzz; Foraging; Information transfer; Juvenile development; Local enhancement; Social learning

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BAT; CAPTURE METHOD; ECHOLOCATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; JUVENILE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEOGRAPHY;

EPTESICUS; EPTESICUS FUSCUS;

EID: 80054757175     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.07.044     Document Type: Article

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