Emerging technologies for behavioral research in changing environments

ID Couzin, C Heins - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2023‏ - cell.com
The first response exhibited by animals to changing environments is typically behavioral.
Behavior is thus central to predicting, and mitigating, the impacts that natural and …

DNA methylation predicts age and provides insight into exceptional longevity of bats

GS Wilkinson, DM Adams, A Haghani, AT Lu… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Exceptionally long-lived species, including many bats, rarely show overt signs of aging,
making it difficult to determine why species differ in lifespan. Here, we use DNA methylation …

Behaviour, biology and evolution of vocal learning in bats

SC Vernes, GS Wilkinson - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2020‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The comparative approach can provide insight into the evolution of human speech,
language and social communication by studying relevant traits in animal systems. Bats are …

Hippocampal representation during collective spatial behaviour in bats

A Forli, MM Yartsev - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Social animals live and move through spaces shaped by the presence, motion and sensory
cues of multiple other individuals,,,,–. Neural activity in the hippocampus is known to reflect …

The ontogeny of a mammalian cognitive map in the real world

L Harten, A Katz, A Goldshtein, M Handel, Y Yovel - Science, 2020‏ - science.org
How animals navigate over large-scale environments remains a riddle. Specifically, it is
debated whether animals have cognitive maps. The hallmark of map-based navigation is the …

[HTML][HTML] Correlated neural activity across the brains of socially interacting bats

W Zhang, MM Yartsev - Cell, 2019‏ - cell.com
Social interactions occur between multiple individuals, but what is the detailed relationship
between the neural dynamics across their brains? To address this question across …

Acoustic cognitive map–based navigation in echolocating bats

A Goldshtein, X Chen, E Amichai, A Boonman… - Science, 2024‏ - science.org
Bats are known for their ability to use echolocation for obstacle avoidance and orientation.
However, the extent to which bats utilize their highly local and directional echolocation for …

A social foraging trade-off in echolocating bats reveals that they benefit from some conspecifics but are impaired when many are around

K Krivoruchko, JC Koblitz, A Goldshtein… - Proceedings of the …, 2024‏ - pnas.org
Social foraging is very common in the animal kingdom. Numerous studies have documented
collective foraging in various species and many reported the attraction of various species to …

[HTML][HTML] Thinking small: next-generation sensor networks close the size gap in vertebrate biologging

SP Ripperger, GG Carter, RA Page, N Duda… - PLoS …, 2020‏ - journals.plos.org
Recent advances in animal tracking technology have ushered in a new era in biologging.
However, the considerable size of many sophisticated biologging devices restricts their …

Insectivorous bats form mobile sensory networks to optimize prey localization: The case of the common noctule bat

M Roeleke, UE Schlägel, C Gallagher… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - National Acad Sciences
Animals that depend on ephemeral, patchily distributed prey often use public information to
locate resource patches. The use of public information can lead to the aggregation of …