PUBLICATIONS
 
2020
Carter GG, Farine DR, Crisp RJ, Vrtilek JK, Ripperger SP, Page RA. 2020. Development of new food-sharing relationships in vampire bats. Current Biology. 30: 1275-1279. e1273. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.01.055. PDF

Flores V, Carter GG, Halczok TK, Kerth G, Page RA. 2020. Social structure and relatedness in the fringe-lipped bat (Trachops cirrhosus). Royal Society Open Science. 7: 192256. doi: 10.1098/rsos.192256. PDF

Geipel I*, Kernan CE*, Litterer AS, Carter GG, Page RA#, ter Hofstede HM#. *Co-first authors; #Co-last authors. 2020. Predation risks of signalling and searching: bats prefer moving katydids. Biology Letters. 16: 20190837. doi: 0.1098/rsbl.2019.0837. PDF

Hemingway CT, Ryan MJ, Page RA. 2020. State-dependent learning influences foraging behaviour in an acoustic predator. Animal Behaviour. 163: 33-38. PDF

Hermanns K, Marklewitz M, Zirkel F, Overheul GJ, Page RA, Loaiza JR, Drosten C, van Rij RP, Junglen S. 2020. Agua Salud alphavirus defines a novel lineage of insect-specific alphaviruses discovered in the New World. Journal of General Virology. 101: 96-104. PDF

Hiller T, Brändel SD, Honner B, Page RA, Tschapka M. 2020. Parasitization of bats by bat flies (Streblidae) in fragmented habitats. Biotropica 00:1–14. doi: 10.1111/btp.12757. PDF

Ripperger SP, Carter GG, Page RA, Duda N, Koelpin A, Weigel R, Hartmann M, Nowak T, Thielecke J, Schadhauser M, Robert J, Herbst S, Meyer-Wegener K, Wägemann P, Schröder-Preikschat W, Cassens B, Kapitza R, Dressler F, Mayer F. 2020. Thinking small: Next-generation sensor networks close the size gap in vertebrate biologging. PLOS Biology. 18: e3000655. PDF

Stockmaier S, Bolnick DI, Page RA, Carter GG. 2020. Sickness effects on social interactions depend on the type of behaviour and relationship. Journal of Animal Ecology. 1-18. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13193. PDF


2019
Berrío-Martínez J, Kaiser S, Nowak M, Page RA, Carter GG. 2019. The role of past experience in development of feeding behavior in common vampire bats. PeerJ. 7:e7448. PDF

Cronin AD, Ryan MJ, Page RA, Hunter KL, Taylor RC. 2019. Environmental heterogeneity alters mate choice behavior for multimodal signals. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 73:43. PDF

Dixon MM, Hulgard K, Ratcliffe JM*, Page RA*. 2019. Habituation as an indicator of ecological relevance: Insights into the foraging ecology of a frog-eating bat. *Ratcliffe and Page contributed equally to this work. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 73:101. doi: 10.1007/s00265-019-2700-1. PDF

Flores EE, Batista A, Rodríguez V, Page RA. 2019. Vicente's poison frog (Oophaga vicentei) in the wild: calling activity, bioacoustics and diet. The Herpetological Bulletin. 149: 11-17. PDF.

Flores E, Page RA, Aparicio D. 2019. Pristimantis moro. Herpetological Review. 50: 97-98.

Flores V, Mateo JM, Page RA. 2019. The role of male forearm crust odor in fringe-lipped bats (Trachops cirrhosus). Behaviour. doi: 10.1163/1568539X-00003573. PDF

Geipel I*, Amin B*, Page RA†, Halfwerk W†. (2019) Does bat response to traffic noise support the misleading cue hypothesis? Behavioral Ecology. 10.1093/beheco/arz148. *Joint first authors; †Joint senior authors. PDF

Geipel I, Smeekes MJ, Halfwerk W, Page RA. 2019. Noise as an informational cue for decision-making: the sound of rain delays bat emergence. The Journal of Experimental Biology. jeb.192005. PDF

Gessinger G*, Gonzalez-Terrazas T*, Page RA, Jung K, Tschapka M. 2019. Unusual echolocation behaviour of the common sword-nosed bat Lonchorhina aurita: an adaptation to aerial insectivory in a phyllostomid bat? *Gessinger and Gonzalez-Terrazas contributed equally to this work. Royal Society Open Science. doi: 0.1098/rsos.182165. PDF

Hemingway CT, Lea AM, Page RA, Ryan MJ. 2019. Effects of information load on response times in frogs and bats: mate choice vs. prey choice. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 73: 111. PDF

Hemingway CT, Ryan MJ, Page, RA. 2019. Transitive foraging behaviour in frog-eating bats. Animal Behaviour. 154: 47-55. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.05.005. PDF

Legett HD, Page RA, Bernal XE. 2019. Synchronized mating signals in a communication network: the challenge of avoiding predators while attracting mates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 286. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1067. PDF.

Marklewitz M, Dutari LC, Paraskevopoulou S, Page RA, Loaiza JR, Junglen S. 2019. Diverse novel phleboviruses in sandflies from the Panama Canal area, Central Panama. Journal of General Virology. 100: 938-949.

Page RA, Bernal XE. 2019. The challenge of detecting prey: Private and social information use in predatory bats. Invited review in ‘The role of sensory ecology and cognition in social decisions’ (eds. K Schneeberger, M Taborsky). Functional Ecology. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13439. PDF; coverage in National Geographic.

Ripperger SP, Carter GG, Duda N, Koelpin A, Cassens B, Kapitza R, Josic D, Berrío-Martínez J, Page RA, Mayer F. 2019. Vampire bats that cooperate in the lab maintain their social networks in the wild. Current Biology. 10.1016/j.cub.2019.10.024. PDF.

2018
Carter GC, Forss S, Page RA, Ratcliffe JM. 2018. Younger vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) are more likely to explore novel objects. PLOS One. 13(5): e0196889. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0196889. PDF

Estrada-Villegas S, Halczok TK, Tschapka M, Page RA, Brändel SD, Hiller T. 2018. Updated survey of the bats of Coiba National Park, Panama and their associated ectoparasites. Acta Chiropterologica. 20: 161–176. doi: 10.3161/15081109ACC2018.20.1.012. PDF

Haelewaters D, Page RA, Pfister, D. 2018. Parasites of parasites of bats: morphological and molecular diversity of Laboulbeniales fungi associated with ectoparasite bat flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae, Streblidae). Ecology and Evolution. doi: 0.1002/ece3.4359. PDF

Halfwerk W, Blaas M, Kramer L, Hijner N, Trillo PA, Bernal XE, Page RA, Goutte S, Ryan MJ, Ellers J. 2018. Adaptive changes in sexual signaling in response to urbanization. Nature Ecology & Evolution. doi:10.1038/s41559-018-0751-8. PDF

Halczok TK, Flores V, Brändel SD, Puechmaille SJ, Tschapka M, Page RA, Kerth G. 2018. Male-biased dispersal and the potential impact of human-induced habitat modifications on the Neotropical bat Trachops cirrhosus. Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1002/ece3.4161. PDF

Hemingway C, Dixon MM, Page RA. In press. The omnivore’s dilemma: the paradox of the generalist predators. In: Phyllostomid Bats, a Unique Mammalian Radiation (editors: TH Fleming, L Davalos, M Mello). University of Chicago Press.

Hemingway CT, Ryan MJ, Page RA. 2018. Cognitive constraints on optimal foraging in frog-eating bats. Animal Behaviour. 143: 43-50. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.07.007. PDF

Hiller T, Honner B, Page RA, Tschapka M. 2018. Leg structure explains host site preference in bat flies (Diptera: Streblidae) parasitizing neotropical bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Parasitology. 1–8. doi: 10.1017/S0031182018000318. PDF

Hiller T, Rasche A, Brändel SD, König A, Jeworowski L, O’Mara MT, Cottontail V, Page RA, Glebe D, Drexler JF, Tschapka M. 2018. Host biology and anthropogenic factors affect hepadnavirus infection in a Neotropical bat. EcoHealth, 1-13. doi: 10.1007/s10393-018-1387-5. PDF

Kohles JE, Page RA, Dechmann DKN, O'Mara MT (2018) Rapid behavioral changes during early development in Peters' tent-making bat (Uroderma bilobatum). PLoS ONE 13(10): e0205351. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0205351. PDF

Miller AJ, Page RA, Bernal XE. 2018. Exploratory behavior of a native anuran species with high invasive potential. Animal Cognition. 21: 55-65. doi: 10.1007/s10071-017-1138-y. PDF

Page RA. 2018. Leveling the playing field: Comparative cognition studies in bats. Box in book chapter by Y Yovel, S Greif. Bat cognition. In: Field and Laboratory Methods in Animal Cognition (editors: F Amici, N Bueno-Guerra). Cambridge University Press.

Patriquin KJ, Kohles J, Page RA*, Ratcliffe JM*. 2018. Bats without borders: predators learn novel prey cues from other predatory species. Science Advances. 4: eaaq0579. *Page and Ratcliffe contributed equally to this work. PDF

Ryan MJ, Page RA, Hunter KL, Taylor RC. 2018. “Crazy love”—nonlinearity and irrationality in mate choice. Invited contribution to Cognitive Ecology issue of Animal Behaviour (eds JM Ratcliffe, R Dukas). doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.04.004. PDF

Schmid J, Rasche A, Eibner G, Jeworowski L, Page RA, Corman VM, Drosten C, Sommer S. 2018. Ecological drivers of Hepacivirus infection in a neotropical rodent inhabiting landscapes with various degrees of human environmental change. Oecologia. doi: 10.1007/s00442-018-4210-7. PDF

Stockmaier, S, Bolnick, DI, Page, RA, Carter, GG. 2018. An immune challenge reduces social grooming in vampire bats. Animal Behaviour. 140: 141-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.04.021. PDF

Symes L, Martinson S, Höger L-O, Page RA, ter Hofstede HM. 2018. Effects of predator cues on prey signaling behavior: bat echolocation and katydid calls in the Neotropical forest canopy. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 6:227. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2018.00227. PDF

Vrtilek J, Carter GG, Patriquin KJ, Page RA*, Ratcliffe JR*. 2018. New method for rapid testing of social learning in vampire bats. Royal Society Open Science. *Page and Ratcliffe contributed equally to this work. 5: 172483. doi: 10.1098/rsos.172483. PDF

Wasimuddin, Brandel SD, Tschapka M, Page RA, Rasche A, Corman VM, Drosten C, Sommer S. 2018. Astrovirus infections induce age-dependent dysbiosis in gut microbiomes of bats. ISME. doi:10.1038/s41396-018-0239-1. PDF

2017
Carter GG, Wilkinson GS, Page RA. 2017. Food-sharing vampire bats are more nepotistic under conditions of perceived risk. Behavioral Ecology. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arx006. PDF

Flores EE, Page RA, Cisneros I, Rodriguez S. 2017. Oophaga vicentei (Vicente´s Poison Frog). Color change. Herpetological Review. 8: 166-167. PDF

Flores V, Page RA. 2017. Novel odorous crust on the forearm of reproductive male fringe-lipped bats (Trachops cirrhosus). Journal of Mammalogy. 98: 1568-1577. doi: 10.1093/jmammal/gyx137. PDF, Nature Research Highlights PDF

Gomes DGE, Halfwerk W, Taylor RC, Ryan MJ, Page RA. 2017. Multimodal weighting differences by bats and their prey: probing natural selection pressures on sexually selected traits. Animal Behaviour. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.10.011. PDF

Hemingway C, Ryan MJ, Page RA. 2017. Rationality in decision-making in the fringe-lipped bat, Trachops cirrhosus. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 71: 94. doi: 10.1007/s00265-017-2321-5. PDF

Jones PL, Hämsch F, Page RA, Kalko EKV, O’Mara MT. 2017. Foraging and roosting behavior of the fringe-lipped, Trachops cirrhosus, on Barro Colorado Island, Panamá. Acta Chiropterologica. 19: 337-346. doi: 10.3161/15081109ACC2017.19.2.010. PDF

Taylor RC, Page RA, Klein BA, Ryan MJ, Hunter KL. 2017. Perceived synchrony of frog multimodal signal components is influenced by content and order. Integrative and Comparative Biology. doi: 10.1093/icb/icx027. PDF

ter Hofstede HM, Voigt-Heucke SL, Lang A, Römer H, Page RA, Faure PA, Dechmann DKN. 2017. Revisiting adaptations of Neotropical katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) to gleaning bat predation. Neotropical Biodiversity. 3: 41-49. doi: 10.1080/23766808.2016.1272314. PDF
 
2016
Gomes DGE, Page RA, Geipel I, Taylor RC, Ryan MJ, Halfwerk W. 2016. Bats perceptually weight prey cues across sensory systems when hunting in noise. Science. 353: 1277-1280. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf7934. PDF, Supplemental Materials PDF

Halfwerk W, Guerra MA, Lea AM, Page RA, Ryan MJ. 2016. Amplitude regulation in frogs reveals the ancestral state of the Lombard effect. Behavioral Ecology. 27: 669-676. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arv204. PDF

Jones PL, Page RA, Ratcliffe JM. 2016. To scream or to listen? Prey detection and discrimination in animal-eating bats. In: Bat Bioacoustics (volume editors: B Fenton and A Grinnell; series editor: A. Popper). New York: Springer. pp. 93-116. PDF

Page RA, Jones PL. 2016. Overcoming sensory uncertainty: factors affecting foraging decisions in frog-eating bats. In: Perception and Cognition in Animal Communication (volume editors, MA Bee and CT Miller), in the book series Animal Signals and Communication (series editors: PK McGregor and VM Janik). New York: Springer. pp. 285-312. PDF

Ramakers JJC, Dechmann DKN, Page RA, O’Mara MT. (2016) Frugivorous bats prefer information from novel social partners. Animal Behaviour. 116: 83-87. PDF

Ripperger S, Josic D, Hierold M, Koelpin A, Weigel R, Hartmann M, Page RA, Mayer F. 2016. Automated proximity sensing in small vertebrates: design of miniaturized sensor nodes and first field tests in bats. Ecology and Evolution. 6: 2179–2189. PDF

Stange N, Page RA, Ryan MJ, Taylor RC. 2016. Interactions between complex multisensory signal components result in unexpected mate choice responses. Animal Behaviour. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.07.005. PDF

Symes LB, Page RA, ter Hofstede HM. 2016. Effects of acoustic environment on male calling activity and timing in Neotropical forest katydids. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 70: 1485-1495. DOI: 10.1007/s00265-016-2157-4. PDF

Trillo PA, Bernal XE, Caldwell M, Halfwerk W, Owens M, Page RA. 2016. Collateral damage or a shadow of safety? The effects of signaling neighbors on the risks of parasitism and predation. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B. 283: 20160343. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0343. PDF

Vencl FV, Ottens K, Dixon MM, Candler S, Bernal XE, Estrada C, Page RA. 2016. Pyrazine emission by a tropical firefly: an example of chemical aposematism? Biotropica. 48: 645–655. DOI 10.1111/btp.12336. PDF
 
2015
Bader, E, Jung, K, Kalko, EKV., Page, RA, Rodriguez, R, Sattler, T. 2015. Mobility explains the response of aerial insectivorous bats to anthropogenic habitat change in the Neotropics. Biological Conservation. 186: 97–106. PDF

Bulbert, MW, Page, RA, Bernal, XE. 2015. Danger comes from all fronts: predator-dependent escape tactics of túngara frogs. PLoS ONE: 10(4): e0120546. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0120546. PDF

Falk JJ*, ter Hofstede HM*, Jones PL, Dixon MM, Faure PA, Kalko EKV, Page RA. 2015. Sensory-based niche partitioning in a multiple predator-multiple prey community. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B. 282: 20150520. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0520. *Falk and ter Hofstede contributed equally to this work. PDF

Fugère, V, O'Mara, MT, Page, RA. 2015. Perceptual bias does not explain preference for prey call adornment in the frog-eating bat. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. DOI 10.1007/s00265-015-1949-2. PDF

Rhebergen, F, Taylor, RC, Ryan, MJ, Page, RA, Halfwerk, W. 2015. Multimodal cues improve prey localisation under complex environmental conditions. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B. 282: 20151403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1403. PDF

Stockmaier, S, Dechmann, DKN, Page, RA, O’Mara, MT. 2015. No fever and leukocytosis in response to a lipopolysaccaride challenge in an insectivorous bat. Biology Letters. 11: 20150576. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0576. PDF
 
2014
Clarin, TMA, Borissov, I, Page, RA, Ratcliffe, JM, Siemers, BM. 2014. Social learning within and across species: information transfer in mouse-eared bats. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 129-139. DOI 10.1139/cjz-2013-0211. PDF

Halfwerk, W, Dixon, MM, Ottens, K, Taylor, RC, Ryan, MJ, Page, RA, Jones, PL. 2014. Risks of multimodal signaling: bat predators attend to dynamic motion in frog sexual displays. Journal of Experimental Biology. 217: 3038-3044. DOI 10.1242/jeb.107482. PDF

Halfwerk, W, Jones, PL, Taylor, RC, Ryan, MJ, Page, RA. 2014. Risky ripples allow bats and frogs to eavesdrop on a multisensory sexual display. Science. 342: 413-416, DOI 10.1126/science.1244812. PDF, Supplemental Materials PDF

Halfwerk, W, Page, RA, Taylor, RC, Wilson, PS, Ryan, MJ. 2014. Cross-modal comparisons of signal components allow for relative distance assessment. Current Biology: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.05.068. PDF

Jones, PL, Ryan, MJ, Page, RA. 2014. Population and seasonal variation in response to prey calls by an eavesdropping bat. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 68: 605-615. DOI 10.1007/s00265-013-1675-6. PDF

O’Mara, MT, Dechmann, DKN, Page, RA. 2014. Frugivorous bats evaluate the quality of social information when choosing novel foods. Behavioral Ecology: 1–7. doi:10.1093/beheco/aru120. PDF

Page, RA, Ryan, MJ, Bernal, XE. 2014. Be loved, be prey, be eaten. In: Animal Behavior, vol 3. Case Studies: Integration and Application of Animal Behavior (ed., K. Yasukawa), New York: Praeger. pp. 123-154. PDF
 
2013
Clarin, TMA., Ruczyński, I, Page, RA, Siemers, BM. 2013. Foraging ecology predicts learning performance in insectivorous bats. PLoS ONE. 8: e64823. PDF

Jones, PL, Farris, HE, Ryan, MJ, Page, RA. 2013. Do frog-eating bats perceptually bind the complex components of frog calls? Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 199: 279-283. PDF

Jones, PL, Ryan, MJ, Flores, V, Page, RA. 2013. When to approach novel prey cues? Social learning strategies in frog-eating bats. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B. 280: 20132330, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2330. PDF

Surlykke, A, Jakobsen, L, Kalko, EKV., Page, RA. 2013. Echolocation intensity and directionality of perching and flying fringe-lipped bats, Trachops cirrhosus (Phyllostomidae). Frontiers in Physiology. 4:143, doi: 10.3389/fphys. 2013.00143. PDF
 
2012
Page, RA, Schnelle, T, Kalko, EKV, Bunge, T, Bernal, XE. 2012. Reassessment of prey through sequential use of multiple sensory cues by an eavesdropping bat. Naturwissenschaften 99: 505-509. PDF,

Page RA*, von Merten S*, Siemers BM. 2012. Associative memory or algorithmic search: a comparative study on learning strategies of bats and shrews. Animal Cognition 15: 495-504. PDF, Coverage by Max Planck Institute for Ornithology. *Page and von Merten contributed equally to this work.
 
2011
Akre, KL, Farris, HE, Lea, AM, Page, RA, Ryan, MJ. 2011. Signal perception in frogs and bats and the evolution of mating signals. Science 333: 751-752. PDF, Supplemental Materials PDF, Perspective PDF

Jones, PL, Page, RA, Hartbauer, M, Siemers, BM. 2011. Behavioral evidence for eavesdropping on prey song in two Palearctic sibling bat species. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65: 333-340. PDF
 
2009
Bernal, XE, Page, RA, Ryan, MJ, Argo, TF, Wilson, PS. 2009. Acoustic radiation patterns of mating calls of the túngara frog (Physalaemus pustulosus): implications for multiple receivers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 126: 2757-2767. PDF

Siemers, BM, Page, RA. 2009. Behavioral studies of bats in captivity: methodology, training, and experimental design. In: Ecological and Behavioral Methods for the Study of Bats (ed. T. H. Kunz & S. Parsons), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 373-392. PDF
 
2008 and earlier
Page, RA, Ryan, MJ. 2008. The effect of signal complexity on localization performance in bats that localize frog calls. Animal Behaviour 76: 761-769. PDF

Bernal, XE, Page, RA, Rand, AS, Ryan, MJ. 2007. Cues for eavesdroppers: do frog calls indicate prey density and quality? American Naturalist 169: 409-415. PDF

Page, RA. 2007. Prey-predator communication: for your sensors only. Dispatch for Current Biology 17: R965-R966. PDF

Page, RA, Ryan, MJ. 2006. Social transmission of novel foraging behavior in bats: frog calls and their referents. Current Biology 16: 1201-1205. PDF,  Dispatch PDF

Page, RA, Bernal, XE. 2006. Túngara frogs. Quick guide for Current Biology 16: R979-980. PDF

Page, RA, Ryan, MJ. 2005. Flexibility in assessment of prey cues: frog-eating bats and frog calls. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B 272: 841-847. PDF

Gabor, CR, Page, RA. 2003. Female preference for large males in sailfin mollies, Poecilia latipinna: the importance of predation pressure and reproductive status. Acta Ethologica 6: 7-12. PDF