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Kinship, association, and social complexity in bats
(2019-01)
Among mammals, bats exhibit extreme variation in sociality, with some species living largely solitary lives while others form colonies of more than a million individuals. Some tropical species form groups during the day ...
Comparing the efficiency of monofilament and traditional nets for capturing bats
(2021)
Traditional mist nets used for capturing bats have several drawbacks, particularly that they are inefficient at sampling many insectivorous species. One possible alternative is to use monofilament nets, whose netting is ...
Contrasting Thermal Strategies of Montane Neotropical Bats at High Elevations
(2018)
In the Neotropics, captive vespertilionid bats substantially reduce their metabolic rate at low ambient temperatures, similar to their temperate counterparts, whereas the ability of phyllostomids to lower metabolic rate ...
Ontogeny of an interactive call-and-response system in Spix's disc-winged bats
(2020)
We investigated the ontogenetic changes of two call types, the inquiry call and the response call, which comprise an interactive communication system in Spix's disc-winged bats, Thyroptera tricolor. We documented structural ...
Fungal communities in feces of the frugivorous bat Ectophylla alba and its highly specialized Ficus colubrinae diet
(2022)
Background: Bats are important long-distance dispersers of many tropical plants, yet, by consuming fruits, they may
disperse not only the plant’s seeds, but also the mycobiota within those fruits. We characterized the ...
Vocal behavior and the use of social information during roost finding
(2022-07-26)
When selecting feeding, hiding, or resting areas, animals face multiple
decisions with different fitness consequences. To maximize efficiency,
individuals can either collect personal information, or use information
gathered ...
Strong individual signatures and weaker group signatures in contact calls of Spix’s disc-winged bat, Thyroptera tricolor
(2012-01)
Spix’s disc-winged bats, Thyroptera tricolor, form small, long-term social groups in which members are
loyal to a patch of forest but move on a daily basis between highly ephemeral roosting sites (partly unfurled Heliconia ...
Ecological Correlates of Range Size in the Tent-Making Bat Artibeus watsoni
(2007-04)
We examined variation in foraging- and roosting-range size in the tent-making bat Artibeus watsoni. We radiotracked 42 individuals at 2 sites in the Golfito Wildlife Refuge and 6 sites at Corcovado National Park, southwestern ...
Seasonality in the emission of contact calls in Spix’s disc-winged bats(Thyroptera tricolor) suggests a potential role in mate attraction
(2022)
Multiple studies show that animals exhibit consistent individual differences in behavior, but they also experience short-term changes
in their behavioral responses associated with seasonal events, most notably reproduction. ...