The influence of human activity on the biosphere is increasing. While direct damage (eg
habitat destruction) is relatively well understood, many activities affect wildlife in less …

In the evolutionary arms race between predators and their prey, prey often evolve to be as
cryptic as they can, while predators in turn hone their sensory strategies to detect prey …

Gleaning insectivorous bats that forage by using echolocation within dense forest vegetation
face the sensorial challenge of acoustic masking effects. Active perception of silent and …

This chapter reviews conceptual and empirical approaches to understanding insect acoustic
communication using long-range acoustic signals in natural environments, primarily in the …

Bats are arguably the most unusual of mammals, uniquely able to fly and also distinctively
capable of laryngeal echolocation, enabling them to orient and move in complete darkness …

Tropical ecosystems are known for high species diversity. Adaptations permitting niche
differentiation enable species to coexist. Historically, research focused primarily on …

Bats are ecologically more diverse than any other group of mammals. The position of a
species within a local ecosystem is best described by its preferred habitat type and foraging …

Males that produce conspicuous mate attraction signals are often at high risk of predation
from eavesdrop** predators. Females of such species typically search for signalling males …

Bats are unusual among mammals in showing great ecological diversity even among
closely related species and are thus well suited for studies of adaptation to the ecological …

Abstract Knowledge of interspecies information transfer in mammals is scarce compared
with other taxa. We investigated whether eavesdrop** on echolocation calls of bats may …