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Learning where to feed: the use of social information in flower-visiting Pallas’ long-tongued bats (Glossophaga soricina)
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Rose, Andreas Kolar, Miriam A. Tschapka, Marco Knörnschild, Mirjam |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | Abstract Social learning is a widespread phenomenon among vertebrates that influences various patterns of behaviour and is often reported with respect to foraging behaviour. The use of social information by foraging bats was documented in insectivorous, carnivorous and frugivorous species, but there are little data whether flower-visiting nectarivorous bats (Phyllostomidae: Glossophaginae) can acquire information about food from other individuals. In this study, we conducted an experiment with a demonstrator-observer paradigm to investigate whether flower-visiting Pallas’ long-tongued bats (Glossophaga soricina) are able to socially learn novel flower positions via observation of, or interaction with, knowledgeable conspecifics. The results demonstrate that flower-visiting G. soricina are able to use social information for the location of novel flower positions and can thereby reduce energy-costly search efforts. This social transmission is explainable as a result of local enhancement; learning bats might rely on both visual and echo-acoustical perception and are likely to eavesdrop on auditory cues that are emitted by feeding conspecifics. We additionally tested the spatial memory capacity of former demonstrator bats when retrieving a learned flower position, and the results indicate that flower-visiting bats remember a learned flower position after several weeks. |
| Starting Page | 251 |
| Ending Page | 262 |
| Page Count | 12 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10071-015-0930-9 |
| PubMed reference number | 26497984 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 19 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://mirjam-knoernschild.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Rose_et_al_2015.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-015-0930-9 |
| Journal | Animal Cognition |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
