{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["68(5)"],"submitter":["Zhang CM"],"pubmed_abstract":["Multimodal communication in animals is common, and is particularly well studied in signals that include both visual and auditory components. Multimodal signals that combine acoustic and olfactory components are less well known. Multimodal communication plays a crucial role in agonistic interactions in many mammals, but relatively little is known about this type of communication in nocturnal mammals. Here, we used male Great Himalayan leaf-nosed bats <i>Hipposideros armiger</i> to investigate multimodal signal function in acoustic and olfactory aggressive displays. We monitored the physiological responses (heart rate [HR]) when <i>H. armiger</i> was presented with 1 of 3 stimuli: territorial calls, forehead gland odors, and bimodal signals (calls + odors). Results showed that <i>H. armiger<"],"journal":["Current zoology"],"pagination":["592-599"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9616070"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Acoustic signal dominance in the multimodal communication of a nocturnal mammal."],"pmcid":["PMC9616070"],"pubmed_authors":["Lucas JR","Feng J","Jiang TL","Sun CN","Zhang CM"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Acoustic signal dominance in the multimodal communication of a nocturnal mammal.","description":"Multimodal communication in animals is common, and is particularly well studied in signals that include both visual and auditory components. Multimodal signals that combine acoustic and olfactory components are less well known. Multimodal communication plays a crucial role in agonistic interactions in many mammals, but relatively little is known about this type of communication in nocturnal mammals. Here, we used male Great Himalayan leaf-nosed bats <i>Hipposideros armiger</i> to investigate multimodal signal function in acoustic and olfactory aggressive displays. We monitored the physiological responses (heart rate [HR]) when <i>H. armiger</i> was presented with 1 of 3 stimuli: territorial calls, forehead gland odors, and bimodal signals (calls + odors). Results showed that <i>H. armiger<","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Oct","modification":"2025-04-18T20:39:01.312Z","creation":"2025-04-07T08:40:13.395Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9616070","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36324540"],"doi":["10.1093/cz/zoab089"]}}