Male courtship displays and vocal communication in the polygynous bat Carollia perspicillata

Behaviour

Volumn 151, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 781-798

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

acoustic display; courtship display; individuality; trills; vocalisation types

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899064895     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539X-00003171     Document Type: Article

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