Roosting together, foraging apart: information transfer about food is unlikely to explain sociality in female Bechstein's bats (Myotis bechsteinii)

By G. Kerth, M. Wagner, Barbara König. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2001

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Emergence time in forest bats: the influence of canopy closure (2007, background): “Several bat species select it for either foraging (Entwistle et al., 1996; Humes et al., 1999; Jung et al., 1999; Kerth et al., 2001a; Bontadina et al., 2002) or roosting for at least part of their annual life cycle (for review see Kunz and Lumsden, 2003).”
Movements and Resource Selection of the Northern Long-eared Myotis (Myotis septentrionalis) in a Forest–Agriculture Landscape (2008, background): “It is therefore likely that the entire colony has knowledge of both tree roosts and the barn, because information transfer about roost sites has been demonstrated in other forestdwelling bats (Kerth et al. 2001).”
Analysis of Spix's disc-winged bat association patterns and roosting home ranges reveal a novel social structure among bats (2004, background): “Documenting other active benefits, such as social learning (Johnston 1997), communal nursing (McCracken 1984; Wilkinson 1992a) or information transfer (Wilkinson 1992b; but see Kerth et al. 2001), would require observations currently not feasible given the lifestyle and small size of T. tricolor.”
Differences in sensory ecology contribute to resource partitioning in the bats Myotis bechsteinii and Myotis nattereri (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) (2006, background): “Both M. bechsteinii and M. nattereri roost in groups of up to a few dozen individuals in tree holes, and both species readily accept bat boxes as artificial roosts (Kerth and König 1999; Siemers et al. 1999; Kerth et al. 2001).”
From spatial orientation to food acquisition in echolocating bats (2003, background): “Exchange of information among colony members about hunting areas occur in evening bats Nycticeius humeralis [28], greater spear-nosed bats Phyllostomus hastatus [29], and possibly in species that sometimes hunt in groups [ 30 ].”
Relatedness structure and kin-biased foraging in the greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) (2002, background): “Mother-todaughter inheritance has also recently been proposed by Kerth et al. (2001) , to explain similar home-range overlap between female kin in the temperate bat Myotis bechsteinii.”
Species-specific barrier effects of a motorway on the habitat use of two threatened forest-living bat species (2009, methodology): “Bechstein’s bats, on the contrary, have small individual home ranges (normally <100 ha; Kerth et al., 2001; Kerth and Morf, 2004) and their rounded wings allow for high manoeuvrability and for gleaning insects from the vegetation (Norberg and Rayner, 1987; Siemers and Swift, 2006; Dietz et al.,…”
Social thermoregulation exerts more influence than microclimate on forest roost preferences by a cavity-dwelling bat (2007, background): “For example, large cavities allow occupancy by larger groups of bats, which may provide benefits other than reduced thermoregulatory costs if large group sizes improve the capacity of bats to transfer information about foraging areas and alternative roost sites (Kerth et al. 2001b).”
Nonrandom association patterns at northern long- eared bat maternity roosts (2007, background): “It is possible that thermoregulatory costs related to reproductive status and temperature are mediated primarily through roost selection similar to Bechstein’s bats (Kerth et al. 2001b) or possibly whole roost group size rather than to subgroup associations.”
Roost switching, roost sharing and social cohesion: forest-dwelling big brown bats, Eptesicus fuscus, conform to the fission–fusion model (2004, methodology): “Under the fissionefusion model, on a given night, the colony would consist of multiple roosting subgroups, spread among different trees within the roosting area (Kerth & König 1999; O’Donnell 2000; Kerth et al. 2001a).”