Abstract:Animals that engage in social foraging can produce food-associated calls that elicit two main responses in receivers: the recruitment of other individuals to a foraging site, and an increase in feeding-related behaviors in conspecifics. Spix's disc-winged bat, Thyroptera tricolor, is a highly gregarious species that lives in stable social groups and relies on group call-and-response vocalizations to find ephemeral roosting sites. Because this bat also is known to feed on resources that are abundant but ephemer… Show more
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