Department of Zoology, Faculty of Life sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Sci Data. 2017 Oct 3;4:170143. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2017.143.
Animal acoustic communication research depends on our ability to record the vocal behaviour of different species. Only rarely do we have the opportunity to continuously follow the vocal behaviour of a group of individuals of the same species for a long period of time. Here, we provide a database of Egyptian fruit bat vocalizations, which were continuously recorded in the lab in several groups simultaneously for more than a year. The dataset includes almost 300,000 files, a few seconds each, containing social vocalizations and representing the complete vocal repertoire used by the bats in the experiment period. Around 90,000 files are annotated with details about the individuals involved in the vocal interactions, their behaviours and the context. Moreover, the data include the complete vocal ontogeny of pups, from birth to adulthood, in different conditions (e.g., isolated or in a group). We hope that this comprehensive database will stimulate studies that will enhance our understanding of bat, and mammal, social vocal communication.
动物声学通讯研究依赖于我们记录不同物种发声行为的能力。我们很少有机会能够长时间连续跟踪同一物种的一群个体的发声行为。在这里，我们提供了一个埃及果蝠发声数据库，这些发声是在实验室中同时对多个群体进行连续记录超过一年得到的。该数据集包含近 30 万个文件，每个文件几秒钟，包含社交发声，并代表了蝙蝠在实验期间使用的完整发声 repertoire。大约 90000 个文件详细记录了发声互动中涉及的个体、它们的行为和上下文。此外，这些数据包括了幼崽在不同条件下（例如单独或在群体中）从出生到成年的完整发声发育过程。我们希望这个综合数据库将激发研究，增强我们对蝙蝠和哺乳动物社会发声通讯的理解。
