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Vespertilionidae

Family · 3 recordings

Contains

Barbastella0
Bauerus0
Eptesicus0
Hypsugo0
Lasionycteris0
Lasiurus0
Myotis0
Nyctalus1
Pipistrellus1
Plecotus1
Rhogeessa0
Vespertilio0

Recordings

4 Bat social calls - probably Pipistrelle sp.0:55
40 Noctule Bat Roost0:34
41 Brown Long-eared Bat alarm calls (Roger Noughton)0:26

Literature

Jiang, Tinglei; Guo, Xiong; Lin, Aiqing; Wu, Hui; Sun, Congnan; Feng, Jiang; Kanwal, Jagmeet S. (2019). Bats increase vocal amplitude and decrease vocal complexity to mitigate noise interference during social communication. Animal Cognition.
Zhao, Xin; Jiang, Tinglei; Liu, Heng; Wang, Yuze; Liu, Ying; Feng, Jiang (2019). Acoustic signalling of aggressive intent in the agonistic encounters of female Asian particoloured bats. Animal Behaviour, 149: 65 - 75.
Schmidbauer, Philipp; Denzinger, Annette (2019). Social calls of Myotis nattereri during swarming: Call structure mirrors the different behavioral context.
Bartonička, Tomáš; Miketová, Nikola; Hulva, Pavel (2019). High Throughput Bioacoustic Monitoring and Phenology of the Greater Noctule Bat (Nyctalus lasiopterus) Compared to Other Migratory Species.
Ossa, Gonzalo; Díaz, M Mónica; Barquez, Rubén M (2019). Lasiurus varius (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae).
Penone, Caterina; Kerbiriou, Christian; Julien, Jean-François; Marmet, Julie; Le Viol, Isabelle (2018). Body size information in large-scale acoustic bat databases. PeerJ, 6: e5370.
Stidsholt, Laura; Johnson, Mark; Beedholm, Kristian; Jakobsen, Lasse; Kugler, Kathrin; Brinkløv, Signe; Salles, Angeles; Moss, Cynthia F. (2018). A 2.6-gram sound and movement tag for studying the acoustic scene and kinematics of echolocating bats. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
Egert-Berg, Katya; Hurme, Edward R.; Greif, Stefan; Goldstein, Aya; Harten, Lee; Herrera M., Luis Gerardo; Flores-Martínez, José Juan; Valdés, Andrea T.; Johnston, Dave S.; Eitan, Ofri; Borissov, Ivo; Shipley, Jeremy Ryan; Medellin, Rodrigo A.; Wilkinson, Gerald S.; Goerlitz, Holger R.; Yovel, Yossi (2018). Resource Ephemerality Drives Social Foraging in Bats. Current Biology.
Huang, Xiaobin; Metzner, Walter; Zhang, Kangkang; Wang, Yujuan; Luo, Bo; Sun, Congnan; Jiang, Tinglei; Feng, Jiang (2018). Acoustic similarity elicits responses to heterospecific distress calls in bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Animal Behaviour, 146: 143 - 154.
Guo, Dongge; Luo, Bo; Zhang, Kangkang; LIU, Muxun; Metzner, Walter; Liu, Ying; Feng, Jiang (2018). Social vocalizations of big-footed myotis (Myotis macrodactylus) during foraging. Integrative Zoology.
Motoi, Kazuya; Sumiya, Miwa; Fujioka, Emyo; Hiryu, Shizuko (2017). Three-dimensional sonar beam-width expansion by Japanese house bats ( Pipistrellus abramus ) during natural foraging. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(5): EL439 - EL444.
Luo, Bo; Lu, Guanjun; Chen, Kelly; Guo, Dongge; Huang, Xiaobin; Liu, Ying; Feng, Jiang (2017). Social calls honestly signal female competitive ability in Asian particoloured bats. Animal Behaviour, 127: 101 - 108.
Dorado-Correa, Adriana M.; Goerlitz, Holger R.; Siemers, Björn M. (2013). Interspecific acoustic recognition in two European bat communities. Frontiers in Physiology, 4.
Goerlitz, Holger R.; ter Hofstede, Hannah M.; Zeale, Matt R.K.; Jones, Gareth (2010). An Aerial-Hawking Bat Uses Stealth Echolocation to Counter Moth Hearing. Current Biology, 20(17): 1568 - 1572.
Waters, Dean A. (2003). Bats and moths: what is there left to learn?.
O'Farrell, Michael J.; Miller, Bruce W.; Gannon, William L. (1999). Qualitative Identification of Free-flying Bats Using the Anabat Detector. Journal of MammalogyJournal of Mammalogy, 80(1): 11-23.
O'Farrell, Michael J.; Miller, Bruce W. (1999). Use of vocal signatures for the inventory of free-flying Neotropical bats. BiotropicaBiotropica, 31(3): 507-516.
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