Meta-analysis reveals that animal sexual signalling behaviour is honest and resource based

LR Dougherty - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - nature.com
Animals often need to signal to attract mates and behavioural signalling may impose
substantial energetic and fitness costs to signallers. Consequently, individuals often …

Bat mating systems—A review and recategorisation

A Dorrestein, D Westcott, JM Martin… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Mating systems, influenced by the social and ecological environment and individual
attributes, are fundamental components of animal social organisation, impacting behaviour …

Thermal energetics of male courtship song in a lek-breeding bat

K Collier, S Parsons, ZJ Czenze - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2022 - Springer
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 …

The high-output singing displays of a lekking bat encode information on body size and individual identity

CA Toth, S Parsons - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2018 - Springer
A growing body of research suggests that songs are an important part of the courtship
behavior of many bat species, however there is little information on the basic characteristics …

Syntactic properties of male courtship song in the lesser short-tailed bat, Mystacina tuberculata

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 …

Displays

J Muir - Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior, 2022 - Springer
Human mating decisions are not made in a social vacuum; rather, members of the local
community and external surroundings, especially close kin and coalitional allies, affect them …

Male chemical signalling to recruit females in the greater short-nosed fruit bat Cynopterus sphinx

A Rathinakumar, M Baheerathan… - Acta …, 2021 - ingentaconnect.com
Mate attraction via chemosignalling is common in group-living mammals. In the greater short-
nosed fruit bats, Cynopterus sphinx, it remains unclear whether males use chemosignals to …

Autumn roost-site selection by male hoary bats (Lasiurus cinereus) in northern California

S Salganek, TJ Weller, JM Szewczak - Journal of Mammalogy, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Effective conservation and management of a species relies upon understanding its habitat
throughout its full annual cycle. For hoary bats, Lasiurus cinereus, their ecology is largely …

[PDF][PDF] Bat Research & Conservation www. secemu. org

JT Shapiro, RA Stanton Jr, RA McCleery… - Journal of Bat …, 2021 - secemu.org
Behavior and personality play a crucial role in the evolution and ecology of animal species.
We have limited knowledge of bat personality traits, partially due to the time, equipment, and …

[引用][C] A scale for quantifying behavior based on aggressiveness in bats

JT Shapiro, RA Stanton Jr, RA McCleery… - 2021 - Spanish Association of Bat …