ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2024
Spatial memory obviates following behaviour in an information centre of wild fruit bats.
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- Expanding theory, methodology and empirical systems at the spatial-social interface.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- 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
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According to the information centre hypothesis (ICH), colonial species use social information in roosts to locate ephemeral resources. Validating the ICH necessitates showing that uninformed individuals follow informed ones to the new resource. However, following behaviour may not be essential when individuals have a good memory of the resources' locations. For instance, Egyptian fruit bats forage on spatially predictable trees, but some bear fruit at unpredictable times. These circumstances suggest an alternative ICH pathway in which bats learn when fruits emerge from social cues in the roost but then use spatial memory to locate them without following conspecifics. Here, using an unique field manipulation and high-frequency tracking data, we test for this alternative pathway: we introduced bats smeared with the fruit odour of the unpredictably fruiting
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