See you later: roost fidelity of the “Boomerang Bats”, Artibeus lituratus (Olfers, 1818) (Mammalia, Chiroptera)

Carolina Blefari  Batista; Alan Deivid Pereira; Guilherme de Toledo Figueiredo; Isaac Passos de Lima

doi:10.5433/1679-0367.2024v45n1p27

Authors

Carolina Blefari Batista Universidade Federal de Goiás - UFG https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5927-8184
Alan Deivid Pereira Universidade Estadual do Paraná - Unespar https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3182-2344
Guilherme de Toledo Figueiredo Universidade Estadual do Norte do Paraná - UENP https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8020-9829
dr Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5684-5067

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1679-0367.2024v45n1p27

Keywords:

Chiroptera, Female, Aggregation, Roost ecology

Abstract

Animals exhibit sociability behaviors and spatial use patterns that are important for species survival. Bats are animals that exhibit complex patterns of aggregation of individuals, which can vary according to sex and age. Aggregation can be explained by active or passive mechanisms. In this behavioural note, we report a group of female Artibeus lituratus in the reproductive stage that exhibits aggregation behavior supporting the active mechanism hypothesis. The females returned to the same roost, for two reproductive season, maintaining the aggregation with the same individuals with which the social bonds were already established.

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Author Biographies

Carolina Blefari Batista, Universidade Federal de Goiás - UFG

PhD in Biological Sciences from the Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), Londrina, Paraná, Brazil. Postdoctoral student in the Department of General Biology of the Institute of Biological Sciences (ICB) of the Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Goiânia, Goiás.

Alan Deivid Pereira, Universidade Estadual do Paraná - Unespar

PhD in Biological Sciences from the Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), Londrina, Paraná, Brazil. Collaborating Professor at the Universidade Estadual do Paraná (Unespar), União da Vitória, Paraná

Guilherme de Toledo Figueiredo, Universidade Estadual do Norte do Paraná - UENP

PhD in Biological Sciences from the Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), Londrina, Paraná, Brazil. Professor at the Center for Human Sciences and Education at the Universidade Estadual do Norte do Paraná (UENP), Jacarezinho, Paraná

dr, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro

PhD in Animal Biology from the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Associate Researcher at the Mastozoology Laboratory of the Institute of Biological and Health Sciences (ICBS) at the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro

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