A5023048238- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Marine animal studies overview
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Gut microbiota and health
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Cognitive Science and Mapping
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Rabies epidemiology and control
- Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies
- Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Robotics and Automated Systems
- Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies
- Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
Tel Aviv University
2017-2025
Knowing their way around The presence of a cognitive map is essential to our ability navigate through areas we know because it facilitates the use spatial knowledge derive new routes. Whether such maps exist in nonhuman animals has been debated, largely difficulty demonstrating qualifying components outside laboratory. In two studies on Egyptian fruit bats, Harten et al. and Toledo together show that this species's navigational strategies meet requirements for environment, confirming skill...
Episodic memory and mental time travel have been viewed as uniquely human traits.1Tulving E. Elements of Memory. Oxford University Press, 1983Google Scholar,2Suddendorf T. Corballis M.C. Mental the evolution mind.Genet. Psychol. Monogr. 1997; 123: 133-167Google Scholar,3Raby C.R. Alexis D.M. Dickinson A. Clayton N.S. Planning for future by western scrub-jays.Nature. 2007; 445: 919-921Crossref PubMed Scopus (433) Google Scholar This view began to shift with development behavioral criteria...
Social foraging theory suggests that group-living animals gain from persistent social bonds, which lead to increased tolerance in competitive and information sharing. Bats are among the most mammals, often living colonies of tens thousands individuals for dozens years, yet little is known about their dynamics. We observed three captive bat over a year, quantifying >13,000 interactions. found consistently used one two strategies, either producing (collecting) food themselves or scrounging it...
Along with its many advantages, social roosting imposes a major risk of pathogen transmission. How animals reduce this is poorly documented. We used lipopolysaccharide challenge to imitate bacterial infection in both captive and free-living colony an extremely social, long-lived mammal-the Egyptian fruit bat. monitored behavioral physiological responses using arsenal methods, including onboard GPS track foraging, acceleration sensors monitor movement, infrared video record behavior, blood...
Bats are known for their ability to use echolocation obstacle avoidance and orientation. However, the extent which bats utilize highly local directional kilometer-scale navigation is unknown. In this study, we translocated wild Kuhl’s pipistrelle tracked homing abilities while manipulating visual, magnetic, olfactory sensing accurately them using a new reverse GPS system. We show that can identify location after translocation conduct several-kilometer map-based solely echolocation. This...
There are immense consistent inter-individual differences in animal behavior. While many studies have documented such behavioral differences, often referred to as individual personalities, little research has focused on the underlying causes and determining whether they innate or based experience. Moreover, most personalities described behavior under laboratory conditions. We aimed examine impact of early experienced environment behavior, compare it that individual’s original genetic...
There are immense consistent inter-individual differences in animal behavior. While many studies have documented such behavioral differences, often referred to as individual personalities, little research has focused on the underlying causes and determining whether they innate or based experience. Moreover, most personalities described behavior under laboratory conditions. We aimed examine impact of early experienced environment behavior, compare it that individual’s original genetic...
Echolocating bats rely on active acoustic sensing to perceive their environment. When multiple fly together, echolocating simultaneously, the calls emitted by nearby conspecifics could interfere with and mask echoes necessary for orientation. Nowhere is this impairment of more dramatic than when thousands emerge from a cave at same time. Here, we tracked movement tens greater mouse-tailed flying within group thousands. By mounting miniature microphones onboard some bats, monitored scene...
Abstract Background Urbanization is rapidly changing our planet and animals that live in urban environments must quickly adjust their behavior. One of the most prevalent behavioral characteristics dwelling an increased level risk-taking. Here, we aimed to reveal how fruitbats become risk-takers, they differ behaviorally from rural bats, studying both genetic non-genetic factors might play a role process. We assessed personality newborn pups colonies before acquired experience outdoors,...
ABSTRACT In the first longitudinal study of bat microbiomes, we find that unlike pattern described in humans and other mammals, prominent dynamics Egyptian fruit bats’ fur microbiomes are those change over time at level colony as a whole. Thus, on average, pair microbiome samples from different individuals same collected date more similar to one another than individual points. This suggests whole may be appropriate biological unit for understanding some roles host social ecology evolution....
It has long been assumed that non-human animals do not have a concept of time and plan their future actions. Recent evidence however suggests this might be true. Various shown to exhibit episodic-like memory perform oriented behaviors. Most comes from laboratory or short-term field experiments. Here, we provide strong free-ranging wild fruit bats rely on mental temporal maps behaviors when foraging. We GPS-tracked young as they navigated foraged, following them continuously documenting every...
Abstract There are immense consistent inter-individual differences in animal behavior. While many studies have documented such behavioral differences, often referred to as individual personalities, little research has focused on the underlying causes and determining whether they innate or based experience. Moreover, most personalities described behavior under laboratory conditions. We aimed examine impact of early experienced environment behavior, compare it that individual’s original...
Abstract Egyptian fruit bats ( Rousettus aegyptiacus ) manage to survive and flourish in a large geographic range despite the variability of natural anthropogenic conditions this range. To examine challenges faced by free-ranging R . living at northern edge their distribution, we performed retrospective analysis ∼1500 clinical cases reported bat rescue NGO over 25 months, from all Israel. All injured or stranded were evaluated categorized according date, place, sex, age, etiology morbidity....
Abstract Along with its many advantages, social roosting imposes a major risk of pathogen transmission. How animals, and especially free-ranging mammals, reduce this is poorly documented. We used lipopolysaccharide injection to imitate bacterial sickness in both captive colony an extremely social, long lived mammal – the Egyptian fruit bat. monitored behavioral physiological responses using arsenal methods, including on-board GPS acceleration, video, temperature weight measurements, blood...