I am currently part of an amazing collaboration team, including Jeroen van der Kooij (Norway), Thomas Lilley (Finnland) and Mari Fjelldal (Finnland), investigating the phenology, vocal ontogeny and bioacoustics of the beautiful and charismatic bat species Eptesicus...
The Panamá canal Observing and recording a wild colony Saccopteryx bilineata pup The greater sac-winged bat Saccopteryx bilineata is a neotropical insectivorous species distributed in the lowlands from Mexico to Brazil1. This species forms stable perennial colonies...
A spectrogram showing an excerpt of a babbling bout. Babbling bouts are composed of long multisyllabic vocal sequences, including adult-like syllable types (i.e. syllable types of the later adult vocal repertoire) and typical juvenile undifferentiated proto-syllables....
Picture above: Day-roost of S. bilineata. The social environment for a pup consists of all the individuals of the natal colony. The adult males (one up to several harem males defending a small territory) provide the acoustic input but hardly interact with pups.In this...
Investigating speech-relevant genes is important for increasing our understanding of the neuromolecular mechanisms underlying vocal imitation1-2. However, those genes are understudied in vocal learning mammals because vocal learning is rare in non-human mammals3....
The greater mouse-eared bat is a European bat species that inhabits open deciduous forests. As a temperate bat Myotis myotis forms maternity colonies during spring and summer to raise the pups1. In many temperate bat species, females show a high degree of site...