A comparison between Type C social calls

High frequency FM calls

All following calls are emitted while in flight.

(two individuals, same species)

(two individuals, same species)

(Two individuals, same species)

(One individual, other species edited out)

Low frequency warbled qCF calls

All the following calls are emitted from within a maternity roost.

Disrupted calls

All following calls are from roosting bats that were disrupted by the use of a flashlight.


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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