Does similarity in call structure or foraging ecology explain interspecific information transfer in wild Myotis bats?

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Abstract

Animals can gain important information by attending to the signals and cues of other animals in their environment, with acoustic information playing a major role in many taxa. Echolocation call sequences of bats contain information about the identity and behaviour of the sender which is perceptible to close-by receivers. Increasing evidence supports the communicative function of echolocation within species, yet data about its role for interspecific information transfer is scarce. Here, we asked which information bats extract from heterospecific echolocation calls during foraging. In three linked playback experiments, we tested in the flight room and field if foraging Myotis bats approached the foraging call sequences of conspecifics and four heterospecifics that wer

SUBMITTER: Hugel T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5661007 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature