Vocal information and the navigation of social decisions in bats: Is social complexity linked to vocal complexity?

Revisiting a Key Innovation in Evolutionary Biology: Felsenstein’s “Phylogenies and the Comparative Method”

(2019) Raymond B. Huey et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Bat songs as acoustic beacons - male territorial songs attract dispersing females

(2017) Mirjam Knörnschild et al.   Scientific Reports

Common vampire bat contact calls attract past food-sharing partners

(2016) Gerald G. Carter et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Cross-modal integration of multimodal courtship signals in a wolf spider

(2016) Elizabeth C. Kozak et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

The origins and diversity of bat songs

(2016) Michael Smotherman et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Bat Systematics in the Light of Unconstrained Analyses of a Comprehensive Molecular Supermatrix

(2016) Lucila I. Amador et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Shedding light on the ‘dark side’ of phylogenetic comparative methods

(2016) Natalie Cooper et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Everyday bat vocalizations contain information about emitter, addressee, context, and behavior

(2016) Yosef Prat et al.   Scientific Reports

Cross-Modal Correspondences in Non-human Mammal Communication

(2016) Victoria F. Ratcliffe et al.   Multisensory Research

Responsiveness to conspecific distress calls is influenced by day-roost proximity in bats (Saccopteryx bilineata)

(2016) Maria Eckenweber et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Measuring social complexity

(2015) Thore J. Bergman et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The vocal repertoire of the domesticated zebra finch: a data-driven approach to decipher the information-bearing acoustic features of communication signals

(2015) Julie E. Elie et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Females as mobile resources: communal roosts promote the adoption of lek breeding in a temperate bat

(2015) Cory A. Toth et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Singing away from home: Song is used to create and defend foraging territories in the African megadermatid bat, Cardioderma cor

(2015) Grace C. Smarsh   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Estimating vocal repertoire size is like collecting coupons: A theoretical framework with heterogeneity in signal abundance

(2015) Arik Kershenbaum et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Characterizing Vocal Repertoires—Hard vs. Soft Classification Approaches

(2015) Philip Wadewitz et al.   PLoS One

When bats are boxing: aggressive behaviour and communication in male Seba's short-tailed fruit bat

(2014) Ahana Aurora Fernandez et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Male courtship displays and vocal communication in the polygynous bat Carollia perspicillata

(2014) Mirjam Knörnschild et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Mother–offspring recognition in the bat Carollia perspicillata

(2013) Mirjam Knörnschild et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Individual recognition in a wild cooperative mammal using contact calls

(2013) Lynda L. Sharpe et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Perception of individuality in bat vocal communication: discrimination between, or recognition of, interaction partners?

(2013) Hanna B. Kastein et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Social influences on territorial signaling in male greater sac-winged bats

(2013) Maria Eckenweber et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Learned vocal group signatures in the polygynous bat Saccopteryx bilineata

(2012) Mirjam Knörnschild et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

A call-and-response system facilitates group cohesion among disc-winged bats

(2012) Gloriana Chaverri et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Male greater sac-winged bats gain direct fitness benefits when roosting in multimale colonies

(2012) Martina Nagy et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Segmental concatenation of individual signatures and context cues in banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) close calls

(2012) David AWAM Jansen et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Social complexity as a proximate and ultimate factor in communicative complexity

(2012) T. M. Freeberg et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Linking social complexity and vocal complexity: a parid perspective

(2012) I. Krams et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Is sociality required for the evolution of communicative complexity? Evidence weighed against alternative hypotheses in diverse taxonomic groups

(2012) T. J. Ord et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolving communicative complexity: insights from rodents and beyond

(2012) K. A. Pollard et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Adult Vampire Bats Produce Contact Calls When Isolated: Acoustic Variation by Species, Population, Colony, and Individual

(2012) Gerald G. Carter et al.   PLoS One

Strong individual signatures and weaker group signatures in contact calls of Spix’s disc-winged bat, Thyroptera tricolor

(2011) Erin H. Gillam et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Mutual mother–offspring vocal recognition in an ungulate hider species (Capra hircus)

(2011) Elodie Briefer et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Individual specific contact calls of pallid bats (Antrozous pallidus) attract conspecifics at roosting sites

(2011) Bryan D. Arnold et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Social organization and genetic structure: insights from codistributed bat populations

(2011) STEPHEN J. ROSSITER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Contact calls are used for individual mate recognition in free-ranging green-rumped parrotlets, Forpus passerinus

(2010) Karl S. Berg et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Social Organization of the Bat, Carollia perspicillata (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae)

(2010) Charles F. Williams   ETHOLOGY

Putting information back into biological communication

(2010) P. CARAZO et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Variability in Sensory Ecology: Expanding the Bridge Between Physiology and Evolutionary Biology

(2009) Olivier Dangles et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

The advertisement song of Pipistrellus nathusii (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae): a complex message containing acoustic signatures of individuals

(2008) Helena Jahelková et al.   ACTA CHIROPTEROLOGICA

When to be a dear enemy: flexible acoustic relationships of neighbouring skylarks, Alauda arvensis

(2008) Elodie Briefer et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Antiphonal calling allows individual discrimination in white-winged vampire bats

(2008) Gerald G. Carter et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Territorial counter-singing in male sac-winged bats (Saccopteryx bilineata): low-frequency songs trigger a stronger response

(2008) Oliver Behr et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

A COMPARATIVE METHOD FOR STUDYING ADAPTATION TO A RANDOMLY EVOLVING ENVIRONMENT

(2008) Thomas F. Hansen et al.   EVOLUTION

Affect cues in vocalizations of the bat, Megaderma lyra, during agonistic interactions

(2008) Anna Bastian et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA