Calling to the collective: contact calling rates within groups of disc-winged bats do not vary by kinship or association
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2024-03-15
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Chaverri Echandi, Gloriana
Stynoski, Jennifer L.
Araya Salas, Marcelo
Araya Ajoy, Yimen
Nagy, Martina
Knörnschild, Mirjam
Rose, Nicole
Sánchez Chavarría, Mariela
Jiménez Quirós, Lisandro
Ulloa Sanabria, Deilyn
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Many group-living animals coordinate social behaviours using contact calls, which can be produced for all group members or targeted at specific individuals. In the disc-winged bat, Thyroptera tricolor, group members use ‘inquiry’ and ‘response’ calls to coordinate daily movements into new roosts (furled leaves). Rates of both calls show consistent among-individual variation, but causes of within-individual variation remain unknown. Here, we tested whether disc-winged bats produce more contact calls towards group members with higher kinship or association. In 446 experimental trials, we recorded 139 random within-group pairs of one flying bat (producing inquiry calls for roost searching) and one roosting bat (producing response calls for roost advertising). Using generalized linear mixed-effect models (GLMM), we assessed how response and inquiry calling rates varied by sender, receiver, genetic kinship and co-roosting association rate. Calling rates varied consistently across senders but not by receiver. Response calling was influenced by inquiry calling rates, but neither calling rate was higher when the interacting pair had higher kinship or association. Rather than dyadic calling rates indicating within-group relationships, our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that bats produce contact calls to maintain contact with any or all individuals within a group while collectively searching for a new roost site.
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Thyroptera tricolor