Maternal guidance in common noctule bats

How do young bats learn where to roost and where to forage? 

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Proximity sensors allow me to track these rare events during bat ontogeny. Studying maternity colonies of Nyctalus noctula in Berlin I found that pups are guided to new roosting sites by their mother.  

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For my research I use custom-made ultra-low power biologging sensors to study the (social) behavior of bats. These next-generation proximity sensors allow me to build and analyse high-resolution social networks.