Dialects
Bat
Saccopteryx
harems
male tonal
attract
males within
individual
U
relatedness of
N
Davidson 1999
bilineata
calls
females;
a colony are
differences;
males within
(whiteadvertise and
likely to be
differences
colonies could
lined bat)
defend
related
between colonies
mean colony
territory
differences have
a genetic basis
Primate
Hylobates
territorial
great call;
advertise and
mother–
groups respond to
N
intermediacy of
N
Marshall and
sp. (gibbon)
social
mother–
defend
daughter;
own group’s call;
hybrids suggests
Marshall 1976;
groups
daughter
territory;
mated pairs;
daughters sing
genetic basis;
Chivers and
chorus;
pair-bond
primarily
with mothers, which
bulk of evidence
Raemaekers
female–male
maintenance
monogamous
could indicate that
suggests calls are
1980;
duet
practice is
not learned
Brockelman
necessary for call
and
development;
Srikosamatara
hybrids give calls
1980; Deputte
intermediate
1982;
between parental
Brockelman
species
and Schilling
1984;
Raemaekers
et al. 1984
Microcebus
family
trilled loud
territorial
males within
individual
U
individually
N
Zimmermann
murinus
groups
calls
maintenance;
groups
differences;
distinctive calls
and Lerch
(grey
mate
related;
differences
of few males in
1993;
mouse
attraction
females
between captive
a group would
Zimmermann
lemur)
within group
groups
give appearance
1995; Hafen
likely related
of dialects;
et al. 1998
males within groups
related, making
genetic basis
likely
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