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In Focus: Lewanzik, D., Sundaramurthy, A. K., Goerlitz, H. R. (2019). Insectivorous bats integrate social information about species identity, conspecific activity and prey abundance to estimate cost–benefit ratio of interactions. Journal of Animal Ecology, 88, 1462–1473.
Social interactions can generate social structures that shape the fate of individuals and populations. A key feature of social environments...
Animals can use inadvertent social information to improve fitness‐relevant decisions, for instance about where to forage or with whom to interact. Since bats emit high‐amplitude species‐specific echolocation calls when flying, they provide a constant flow of inadvertent social information to others who can decode that acoustic information. Of particular interest is the rate of feeding buzzes—characteristic...
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