ArticleNature communications2019
Long-term and persistent vocal plasticity in adult bats.
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- Assessing the Role of Vocal Plasticity in Sociospatial Coordination.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Review
- Spatial memory obviates following behaviour in an information centre of wild fruit bats.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Role of auditory feedback for vocal production learning in the Egyptian fruit bat.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
- Vocal learning-associated convergent evolution in mammalian proteins and regulatory elements.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- Bat Motion can be Described by Leap Frogging.Bulletin of mathematical biology · 2024Article
- Flexible control of vocal timing in Carollia perspicillata bats enables escape from acoustic interference.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Perceptual hearing sensitivity during vocal production.iScience · 2022Article
- Vocal plasticity in harbour seal pups.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- A researcher's guide to the comparative assessment of vocal production learning.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Vocal production learning in mammals revisited.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
- Cortical representation of group social communication in bats.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2021Article
- Vocal learning and flexible rhythm pattern perception are linked: Evidence from songbirds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- A sensorimotor model shows why a spectral jamming avoidance response does not help bats deal with jamming.eLife · 2020Article
- Do Bats Have the Necessary Prerequisites for Symbolic Communication?Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
- A Modular Approach to Vocal Learning: Disentangling the Diversity of a Complex Behavioral Trait.Neuron · 2019Review
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Abstract
Bats exhibit a diverse and complex vocabulary of social communication calls some of which are believed to be learned during development. This ability to produce learned, species-specific vocalizations - a rare trait in the animal kingdom - requires a high-degree of vocal plasticity. Bats live extremely long lives in highly complex and dynamic social environments, which suggests that they might also retain a high degree of vocal plasticity in adulthood, much as humans do. Here, we report persistent vocal plasticity in adult bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) following exposure to broad-band, acoustic perturbation. Our results show that adult bats can not only modify distinct parameters of their vocalizations, but that these changes persist even after noise cessation - in some cases lasting several weeks or months. Combined, these findings underscore the potential importance of bats as a model organism for studies of vocal plasticity, including in adulthood.
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