Variation in winter conditions differentially impacts thermoregulation of endotherms, with some species using torpor as an energy‐saving strategy during periods of negative energy …
The use of songs for mate-attraction is common. Intensive songs may indicate high energetic investment, reflecting an individual's resource-holding potential and attractiveness as a …
Highlights•The courtship behaviour of a lekking bat is described.•Some males sing solitarily, while others sing sequentially from shared spaces.•Large males tended to inhabit …
K Collier, S Parsons - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) have sophisticated acoustic abilities adapted to many uses, including both echolocation and social vocalisations. Social vocalisations are used in a wide …
ZJ Czenze, T Thurley - New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 2021 - JSTOR
The unique relationship between Dactylanthus taylorii and its pollinator, the New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat (Mystacina tuberculata), is poorly understood despite both species …
ZJ Czenze, T Thurley - New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 2018 - JSTOR
Dactylanthus taylorii is thought to be the only ground-flowering plant to be pollinated by a bat; the New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat (Mystacina tuberculata). This unique mutualistic …
The lesser short-tailed bat (Mystacina tuberculata) and the long-tailed bat (Chalinolobus tuberculatus) are New Zealand's only extant endemic land-dwelling mammals. Both species …