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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |