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Metabolic costs of bat echolocation in a non-foraging context support a role in communication

The exploitation of information is a key adaptive behavior of social animals, and many animals produce costly signals to communicate with conspecifics. In contrast, bats produce ultrasound for auto-communication, i.e., they emit ultrasound calls and behave in response to the received echo. However,...

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Autores principales: Dechmann, Dina K. N., Wikelski, Martin, van Noordwijk, Hendrika J., Voigt, Christian C., Voigt-Heucke, Silke L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3616240/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23576991
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2013.00066