The voice of bats: how greater mouse-eared bats recognize individuals based on their echolocation calls.
Echolocating bats use the echoes from their echolocation calls to perceive their surroundings. The ability to use these continuously emitted calls, whose main function is not communication, for recognition of individual conspecifics might facilitate many of the social behaviours observed in bats. Se...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2009-06-01
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| Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2685012?pdf=render |