Mother-offspring recognition in the bat Carollia perspicillata

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 941-948

  Knörnschild, Mirjam ^a   Feifel, Marion ^a   Kalko, Elisabeth K V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Carollia perspicillata; Male courtship; Maternal care; Maternal experience; Playback experiment; Seba's short tailed fruit bat

Indexed keywords

BAT; COLONY; COURTSHIP; HAREM; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; PARENTAL CARE; SURVIVAL; TAXONOMY;

CAROLLIA PERSPICILLATA; SEBA;

EID: 84886314927     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.08.011     Document Type: Article

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