Flight behaviour and short-distance homing by nomadic grey-headed flying-foxes: a pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The ability to navigate is crucial to the survival of many flying animals. Though relatively much less is known about the navigational abilities of bats versus birds, recent progress has been made in understanding the navigational abilities of cave roosting bats, but little is known about those of arboreal roosting flying-foxes, despite their extreme mobility.

Methods

We use extremely high spatiotemporal resolution GPS tracking to examine the flight behaviour of 11 grey-headed flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) displaced 16.8 km from their roost. We examined flight metrics of the resulting high-resolution traces to understand whether the displaced animals were aware their location with respect to the roost of capture. We use 7 grey-headed flying-foxes tracked f

SUBMITTER: Meade J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11938790 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature