The In-Flight Social Calls of Insectivorous Bats: Species Specific Behaviors and Contexts of Social Call Production
Bats could be a useful study system for studying the evolution of social communication, as they exhibit a high diversity of social group size and complexity.However, the study of bat social calls has been limited, as they are nocturnal, volant animals that produce predominately ultrasonic vocalizations.Passive acoustic monitoring studies occasional