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The masked seducers: Lek courtship behavior in the wrinkle-faced bat Centurio senex (Phyllostomidae).
Rodríguez-Herrera, Bernal; Sánchez-Calderón, Ricardo; Madrigal-Elizondo, Victor; Rodríguez, Paulina; Villalobos, Jairo; Hernández, Esteban; Zamora-Mejías, Daniel; Gessinger, Gloria; Tschapka, Marco.
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  • Rodríguez-Herrera B; Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Sánchez-Calderón R; Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Madrigal-Elizondo V; Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Rodríguez P; Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Villalobos J; Estación de Investigación Miguel Alfaro, Hotel Villablanca, San Ramón, Costa Rica.
  • Hernández E; Estación de Investigación Miguel Alfaro, Hotel Villablanca, San Ramón, Costa Rica.
  • Zamora-Mejías D; Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.
  • Gessinger G; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico DF, Mexico.
  • Tschapka M; University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
PLoS One ; 15(11): e0241063, 2020.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33175837
Centurio senex is an iconic bat characterized by a facial morphology deviating far from all other New World Leaf Nosed Bats (Phyllostomidae). The species has a bizarrely wrinkled face and lacks the characteristic nose leaf. Throughout its distribution from Mexico to Northern South America the species is most of the time rarely captured and only scarce information on its behavior and natural history is available. Centurio senex is frugivorous and one of the few bats documented to consume also hard seeds. Interestingly, the species shows a distinct sexual dimorphism: Adult males have more pronounced facial wrinkles than females and a fold of skin under the chin that can be raised in style of a face mask. We report the first observations on echolocation and mating behavior of Centurio senex, including synchronized audio and video recordings from an aggregation of males in Costa Rica. Over a period of 6 weeks we located a total of 53 perches, where during the first half of the night males were hanging with raised facial masks at a mean height of 2.35 m. Most of the time, the males moved just their wing tips, and spontaneously vocalized in the ultrasound range. Approaches of other individuals resulted in the perching male beating its wings and emitting a very loud, low frequency whistling call. Following such an encounter we recorded a copulation event. The observed aggregation of adult C. senex males is consistent with lek courtship, a behavior described from only few other bat species.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Comportamento Sexual Animal / Quirópteros / Corte / Ecolocação Limite: Animals País/Região como assunto: America central / Costa rica Idioma: En Revista: PLoS One Assunto da revista: CIENCIA / MEDICINA Ano de publicação: 2020 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Costa Rica País de publicação: Estados Unidos
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Comportamento Sexual Animal / Quirópteros / Corte / Ecolocação Limite: Animals País/Região como assunto: America central / Costa rica Idioma: En Revista: PLoS One Assunto da revista: CIENCIA / MEDICINA Ano de publicação: 2020 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Costa Rica País de publicação: Estados Unidos