Role of auditory feedback for vocal production learning in the Egyptian fruit bat.

ABSTRACT: Some species have evolved the ability to use the sense of hearing to modify existing vocalizations, or even create new ones, which enlarges their repertoires and results in complex communication systems.¹ This ability corresponds to various forms of vocal production learning that are all possessed by humans and independently displayed by distantly related vertebrates.^{1,2,3,4,5,6,7} Among mammals, a few species, including the Egyptian fruit bat,^8,9,10 would possess such vocal production learning abilities.⁷ Yet the necessity of an intact auditory system for the development of

SUBMITTER: Elie JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11493346 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature