Social call divergence in bats: a comparative analysis

Bo Luo, Xiaobin Huang, Yuanyuan Li, Guanjun Lu, Jianlun Zhao, Kangkang Zhang, Hanbo Zhao, Ying Liu and Jiang Feng

Behavioral Ecology, 2017, vol. 28, issue 2, 533-540

Abstract: Lay Summary Many ecological and evolutionary factors may induce acoustic divergence between species. Using a wide data set on bats, we show that interspecific divergence in social calls are determined primarily by sociality, body size, and phylogenetic relationships. Just as sexual selection, sociality may serve as a powerful social pressure driving acoustic phenotype diversity.

Keywords: acoustic communication; bat; evolution; signal divergence; social call. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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