Long-term and persistent vocal plasticity in adult bats

Bats are long-lived animals that can produce a complex vocabulary of social communication calls. Here, the authors show that even in adulthood, bats retain the ability to adaptively introduce long-term modifications to their vocalizations, showing persistent vocal plasticity.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Daria Genzel, Janki Desai, Elana Paras, Michael M. Yartsev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11350-2