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1
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How can territory be shown with olfactory signals?

A

Urine, Faeces, Marking, Latrines

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What does echolocation allow?

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Viewing of the environment

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How are calls produced?

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Nasal clicks, tongue clicks, larynx

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What are the intraspecific variation in echolocation?

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Call design, Collision avoidance, Decrease call duration

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What are the characterisations of calls?

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Intensity, Time, Frequency, Sequence

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How do tenrecs emit echolocations?

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Tongue clicks rather than squeaks

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Who did the study on the discovery of echolocation in bats?

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Griffin and Galambos

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What do shrews use echolocation for?

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Habitat assessment

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7
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What is high duty calling?

A

Separate call and echo in frequency

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7
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Which animals emit infrasonic calls?

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Elephant rumbling

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Which other animals use echolocation?

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Shrews, Tenrecs, Marine mammals, Birds

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What is the tragus?

A

Blade-like structure

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What are forms of visual communication?

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Posture, Structural

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What does the pinna do?

A

Focus and amplify sound

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What are social calls for?

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Roosts, Hinernacula, Mating sites

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What does the doppler effect allow?

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Finding moving targets, target detection, localisation

17
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What is functional about self-deafening in bats?

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Insulation

18
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Which animals emit ultrasonic calls?

A

Bats and Rats

19
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Where are scent glands located?

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Facial, Abdominal, Skin

20
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What are acoustic calls?

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Infrasonic, ultrasonic

21
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What are the chemical olfactory signals?

A

Pheromones.

22
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What is low duty calling?

A

Separate call and echo in time

23
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How does the mouth and lips help with the production on ecolocation?

A

Megaphone

24
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How do facial expressions transfer information?

A

Markings, teeth, ears, weapons

25
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What can olfactory signals show?

A

Dominance and Territory

26
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What are tactile methods of communication?

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Grooming, Precopulatory

27
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What does the tragus do?

A

Creates secondary echo

28
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How have moths co-evolved to echolocation in bats?

A

Moths thoracic sound-producing organ interfere with bats

29
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What are auditory communications?

A

Alarm calls

30
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What are the different parts of calls?

A

Bandwidth, narrowband, broadband

31
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What is a high frequency in wavelength?

A

Short wavelength

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