Collection: Part A0, D0 and E motifs

of the type D social call of the Nathusius' pipistrelle (Pipistrellus nathusii)

How I categorize the type D social call motifs of the Nathusius' pipistrelle:

Recorded by: Liam Mulder;     Audio file: 1031809

Recorded by: Sarah Mahie;     Audio file: 1007546

A part A1 can also contain a pre-part that I will call part A0. These are some extra components in front of the main motif (see the two snippits on the right). In the example below, I suspect that this part A0 is used as a stand-alone motif (or simply cut off after) inbetween the other parts.

(Up)      Date of recording: 2024-08-15      Recorded by: Nils Reinerie     Audio file: 927475
(Right)  Date of recording: 2024-06-19      Recorded by: Levi Laluan       Audio file: 914575

Date of recording: 2024-06-26          Recorded by: Menno van Berkum          Audio file: 919195 

Some part A1 motifs without and some with the part A0 pre-motif in front:

Date of recording: 2024-06-26          Recorded by: Cas van Joolingen          Audio file: 917084 

The following sequence consists of the motifs part A(1,2), B, C, B and E:

Date of recording: 2024-05-20          Recorded by: Gijs Peters          Audio file: 911550 

The following sequence consists of the motifs part B, B-C and B-E:

Date of recording: 2024-06-14          Recorded by: Nils Reinerie          Audio file: 913335 

The following sequence consists of the motifs part A-B-E, B-C and B-C:

Date of recording: 2024-05-28         Recorded by: Anice Hut          Audio file: 911811 

The following sequence consists of the motifs part A-B, B-E and B-C:

Date of recording: 2024-07-02          Recorded by: Gijs Peters           Audio file: 918333 

The following sequence consists of the motifs part A-B-C, B-C, B-C and B-E:

Date of recordings: 2024-05-26          Recorded by: Niels Jansen          Audio files: 921716 

The following sequence consists of the motifs part A1-B-C and A0-B-C. Hooked echolocation calls are also present in the recording.

Date of recording: 2024-05-25          Recorded by: Olivier van Aken          Audio file: 911361

The snippit on the right shows the motifs part B-E. An unusual kind of social call (a trill) is also present in this recording.

The two snippits below are from the same recording. The first snippit contains the sequence part B, B-C and B-E-B. The second snippit contains the sequence A-B-E and A-B-C. This recording also contains unsusual social calls (two wavy-line calls).


I explain more about my categorization of unusual social calls of the Nathusius' pipistrelle in this blog post.

(Right)           Date of recording: 2024-05-28         Recorded by: Anice Hut                                         Audio file: 911811

(Below)         Date of recording: 2024-07-02         Recorded by: Chris Johan Diepenmaat          Audio file: 918721 

The following sequence contains the motifs part A(1,2)-B-E and A(1,2)-B-C-D:

Date of recording: 2024-08-21         Recorded by: Wendy Baars          Audio file: 936228 

The following two snippits are from the same recording. The first snippit, altough faintly, contains the motifs part D, B, E, B, a joined part A motif (trill), B and another trill. The second snippit contains the sequence part A-B-C-B-C-B-C-B-C-E-D.

Date of recording: 2024-06-19         Recorded by: Levi Laluan          Audio file: 914575

The following two snippits contain two individual Nathusius' pipistrelle bats whom are both emitting social calls. In the first snippit, one bat emits the motifs B-C-B-C-B-C-B-E and the other bats emits a trill directly after. In the second snippit, the first bat emits the motifs A-B-C-B-E and the other bat emits another trill after.

Date of recordings: 2023-09-07         Recorded by: djsaaltink          Audio files: 828055828059

The following sequence consists of the motifs part A-B-A-B, a wavy-line call, B and B-E. Multiple trills are present in this recording.

Date of recording: 2024-08-19         Recorded by: Declan Frerichs          Audio files: 929731 

The following three snippits are from the same recording. The first snippits show the sequence motif A-B-C-B-E. The second snippit shows the sequence motif B-C-B-E-B. In the third snippit a part E motif is present, but at least two Nathusius' pipistrelle bats are emitting type D social call sequences at the same time.

Date of recordings: 2024-08-02          Recorded by: Ricardo Woudsma          Audio files: 924684 

The following sequence contains the motifs A(0,1,2)-B-C-D:

Date of recordings: 2024-08-04          Recorded by: Ricardo Woudsma          Audio files: 924994

In the snippit on the right, altough faintly, a sequence consisting of motif A-B-C-B-E is shown (from recording 925837):

Date of recording: 2024-08-07          Recorded by: Ricardo Woudsma, Aielynn Kleian          Audio file: 925831925837, 926253 

The sequence part A(0,1)-B-C-B was used five times in this recording. One time the sequence part A-B-C-B-C-B was used.

Date of recording: 2024-08-17          Recorded by: Elise de Groot          Audio file: 928887 

Perhaps this one doesn't belong in the category of a part A0 pre-motif, but this might be the longest part A1 motif I have seen:

Date of recording: 2024-08-17          Recorded by: Sander Boersma          Audio file: 928070928072 

These part E motifs (near the end of both snippits) were emitted alongside many other motifs, including the part B-C sequence, wavy-line calls and trills:

Date of recording: 2024-08-19          Recorded by: Declan Frerichs          Audio file: 929731

The following sequence contains the motifs A(1,2)-B-C-D(0,1)-D1-D1-D1-D1:

Date of recording: 2024-08-20          Recorded by: Ermis Sarafopoulos, Izellah Kramer          Audio file: 930433, 930470 

The following snippits show that the part D0 pre-motif is not strictly bound being in front of a part D1 motif, since the cluster of FM-components are also emitted directly in front of part B motifs. The first snippit contains the sequence part A(1,2)-B-C-D0-B-D0-B-D(0,1)-D. The other snippits contain variations of that sequence.

Date of recordings: 2024-08-20          Recorded by: Iris van der Horn          Audio files: 930498, 930493, 930506, 930509, 930514 

The following sequence contains the motifs B-C-B-E:

Date of recording: 2024-08-23          Recorded by: Daan Meerhof          Audio file: 930599 

The following snippit contains the sequence of the motifs B-C-B, B-E and B-C-B. The part E motif is present three times in these recordings alongside wavy-line calls and trills, other type D social call motifs and type C social calls.

Date of recordings: 2024-08-23, 2024-08-24         Recorded by: Sarah Mahie, Boaz van Die          Audio files: 929477, 929478, 932329 

The first snippit show two unusual calls that might be stand-alone part A0 motifs. The second snippit contains the sequence part A(0,1)-B two times of whom the A0 part are exceptionally emphasized by their number of components and shift in frequencies.

Date of recordings: 2024-08-24         Recorded by: Kaz Veldtrom          Audio files: 929680929673, 929676

The following recordings contain many types of social calls and modified echolocation calls. The part E motif is emitted at least four times. The first snippit contains the sequence motif A-B-C-B-E-D. The second snippit contains the sequence motif A-B-C-B and B-C-B-E. The last snippit shows the motifs part A(0,1)-B-C near the end.

Date of recording: 2024-08-25         Recorded by: Aielynn Kleian          Audio file: 931845, 931846, 931847 

The following snippits contain the part D0 motif in front of part D1 motifs and in front of part B motifs to be followed by a part D(0,1) motif.

Date of recordings: 2024-08-26         Recorded by: Ricardo Woudsma, Izellah Kramer, Paula Gerlag          Audio files: 929959930023, 930025, 930026930027930028, 930029930030930032931832, 931833, 932482, 932484, 932485, 932483 

Altough not very clear, this appears to be the sequence part A-B-C-B-C-B-B-B-B-B-B-D(0,1). Perhaps there might be some part D0 motifs in front of the part B motifs.

Date of recording: 2024-08-28         Recorded by: Kaia Pieters          Audio file: 936307

This snippit contains the sequence part A-B-C-D0-D1(*n) twice:

Date of recording: 2024-08-29         Recorded by: Menno van Berkum          Audio file: 936327 

The first snippit contains the motifs part A1, a streched out part A0 and a part A(0,1)-B-C. The recording also contains part E motifs, but social calls by another bat were emitted at the same time. Unusual social calls such as trills were present as well.

Date of recording: 2024-09-05         Recorded by: Sander Boersma          Audio file: 932327 

This seems to be a part A0 motif followed by part A(0,1)-B-C motifs:

Date of recording: 2024-09-06         Recorded by: Patrick Verschoor, Milan Berghout          Audio file: 936326, 947666 

Date of recording: 2024-09-07         Recorded by: Sander Boersma          Audio file: 932534, 955918, 955919, 955920, 955922 

Date of recording: 2024-09-09         Recorded by: Luuk Verdonk          Audio file: 936304 

Date of recording: 2024-09-09         Recorded by: Sanneke de Neeling          Audio file: 933065, 933067933056, 933068 

Date of recordings: 2024-09-09         Recorded by: Kaia Pieters          Audio files: 933070933069 

Date of recording: 2024-09-12         Recorded by: Iris van der Horn, Aielynn Kleian, Louis Nijholt          Audio file: 947658, 947659947653, 947655, 947656, 947660 

Date of recording: 2024-09-13         Recorded by: Lisa Vermaning          Audio file: 935107 

A very streched out part A0 motif between 2,400s and 2,600s:

Date of recordings: 2024-09-15         Recorded by: Sarah Mahie          Audio files: 934221, 934225, 934226 

Date of recordings: 2024-09-15         Recorded by: Nils Reinerie, Demi Hoeke          Audio file: 934345, 934342934340

Date of recordings: 2024-09-16         Recorded by: Nanieke van den Berg, Aielynn Kleian, Levi Laluan          Audio files: 936302934061, 955924, 955926, 955937, 955940, 955941 

Date of recordings: 2024-09-16         Recorded by: Menno van Berkum, Isis Knijff          Audio files: 936303935111 

Date of recordings: 2024-09-17         Recorded by: Nils Reinerie          Audio files: 936321, 936319, 936323 

Date of recording: 2024-09-17         Recorded by: Molito Fego          Audio file: 935301 

Date of recording: 2024-09-17         Recorded by: Levi Laluan          Audio file: 935730, 935731 

Date of recordings: 2024-09-18         Recorded by: Niels Jansen, Aielynn Kleian          Audio files: 936324, 936325, 955832, 955833, 955834, 955917 

Date of recording: 2024-09-19         Recorded by: Gijs Peters          Audio file: 936308, 936329, 936330 

Date of recordings: 2024-09-19         Recorded by: Niels Jansen          Audio files: 936341, 936344 


All recordings are licensed under the following Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 license and in courtesy of Sarah Mahie.
All sonograms are screenshots of the recordings imported in the ultrasound analysis software BatExplorer 2.2 (Elekon, Switzerland). 


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