When to approach novel prey cues? Social learning strategies in frog-eating bats

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1772, 2013, Pages

  Jones, Patricia L ^a,b   Ryan, Michael J ^a,b   Flores, Victoria ^c   Page, Rachel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bat; Novel prey; Social information; Social learning; Trachops cirrhosus

Indexed keywords

BAT; BIOACOUSTICS; DECISION MAKING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FROG; LEARNING; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL; ANURA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BAT; FOOD CHAIN; LEARNING; MALE; PANAMA; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANURA; CHIROPTERA; CUES; FOOD CHAIN; LEARNING; MALE; PANAMA; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 84896101912     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2330     Document Type: Article

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