Social Organization of a Maternity Group in the Noctule Bat, Nyctalus noctula (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)

• Published in: Ethology
• Main Author: Kozhurina, Eugenia I.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1993
• Subjects: Zakharov; Nyctalus noctula
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1993.tb00981.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1439-0310.1993.tb00981.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1993.tb00981.x

Abstract Social organization of a captive group of noctule bats, N. noctula , was studied by frequent censuses of bats at roost sites during one summer season. Numerous nonrandom associations as measured by information indices of similarity (Kullback 1959; Semkin 1972; Zakharov et al. 1987) were fou...