Great tits search for, capture, kill and eat hibernating bats ...
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Ecological pressure paired with opportunism can lead to surprising innovations in animal behaviour. Here, we report predation of great tits ( Parus major ) on hibernating pipistrelle bats ( Pipistrellus pipistrellus ) at a Hungarian cave. Over two w...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.13463810 2024-09-30T14:41:28+00:00 Great tits search for, capture, kill and eat hibernating bats ... Estók, Péter Zsebők, Sándor Siemers, Björn M. 2010 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13463810 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13463810 unknown Zenodo hash://md5/4dca9a55bc9ea4cf3840873390ce5fd3 hash://sha256/9c97587b02ccb5e2474f1e093c35730e334c9014594150b3e2dc0684bda82eee zotero://select/groups/5435545/items/MIGMFZXF https://zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/MIGMFZXF https://linker.bio/cut:hash://md5/17fc1f2c4e5393f17deb207f411be6c3!/b49371-51834 hash://md5/26f7ce5dd404e33c6570edd4ba250d20 hash://md5/4dca9a55bc9ea4cf3840873390ce5fd3 hash://sha256/9c97587b02ccb5e2474f1e093c35730e334c9014594150b3e2dc0684bda82eee zotero://select/groups/5435545/items/MIGMFZXF https://zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/MIGMFZXF https://linker.bio/cut:hash://md5/17fc1f2c4e5393f17deb207f411be6c3!/b49371-51834 hash://md5/26f7ce5dd404e33c6570edd4ba250d20 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1410543 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13463809 Biodiversity Mammalia Chiroptera Chordata Animalia bats bat JournalArticle ScholarlyArticle article-journal 2010 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1346381010.5281/zenodo.141054310.5281/zenodo.13463809 2024-09-02T10:15:45Z (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Ecological pressure paired with opportunism can lead to surprising innovations in animal behaviour. Here, we report predation of great tits ( Parus major ) on hibernating pipistrelle bats ( Pipistrellus pipistrellus ) at a Hungarian cave. Over two winters, we directly observed 18 predation events. The tits specifically and systematically searched for and killed bats for food. A substantial decrease in predation on bats after experimental provisioning of food to the tits further supports the hypothesis that bat-killing serves a foraging purpose in times of food scarcity. We finally conducted a playback experiment to test whether tits would eavesdrop on calls of awakening bats to find them in rock crevices. The tits could clearly hear the calls and were attracted to the loudspeaker. Records for tit predation on bats at this cave now span more than ten years and thus raise the question of whether cultural transmission plays a role for the spread of this ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Pipistrellus pipistrellus DataCite Parus ENVELOPE(3.950,3.950,-71.983,-71.983) |
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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Ecological pressure paired with opportunism can lead to surprising innovations in animal behaviour. Here, we report predation of great tits ( Parus major ) on hibernating pipistrelle bats ( Pipistrellus pipistrellus ) at a Hungarian cave. Over two winters, we directly observed 18 predation events. The tits specifically and systematically searched for and killed bats for food. A substantial decrease in predation on bats after experimental provisioning of food to the tits further supports the hypothesis that bat-killing serves a foraging purpose in times of food scarcity. We finally conducted a playback experiment to test whether tits would eavesdrop on calls of awakening bats to find them in rock crevices. The tits could clearly hear the calls and were attracted to the loudspeaker. Records for tit predation on bats at this cave now span more than ten years and thus raise the question of whether cultural transmission plays a role for the spread of this ... |
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