Male Particolored bats are known to display mating behavior during autumn in front of tall buildings and cliffs. We know about those buildings serving as winter-roosts for males in Denmark. What about the cliffs: is there evidence that male Vespertilio hibernate within the rocks they are using as mating places? And what about the females?
Here are some places to reference to further your study/ knowledge on this. I hope this helps!
Further Reading:
Greenaway, F. & Hutson, A.M. (1990). A field guide to British bats. Bruce Coleman Books, London. 52pp.
Hutson, A.M. (1993). Action plan for the conservation of bats in the United Kingdom. The Bat Conservation Trust, London.
Hutson, A.M. (2000). Bats. Colin Baxter Photography Ltd., Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland.
Mitchell-Jones, A.L. & McLeish, A.P. (1999). The bat workers' manual. JNCC, Peterborough.
Neuweiler, G. (2000). The biology of bats. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Racey, P.A. (1998). The importance of the riparian environment as a habitat for British bats. In: Behaviour and Ecology of Riparian Mammals (ed. by N. Dunstone & M.L. Gorman). Symp. Zool. Soc. Lond. 71, 69-91.Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 391pp.
Richardson, P.W. (2000). Bat Atlas. Bat Conservation Trust, London.
Vaughan, N. (1997). The diets of British bats (Chiroptera). Mammal Rev. 27, 77-94. animal behavior has been divided into two categories: ...
Web Sites for study:
schreibersii chiroptera vespertilionidae: Topics by Science.gov
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Sex differences in population genetics, home range size and ...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320707000432
roost. The parti-colored bat is a Palae-arctic ... both sexes are found in ...
Tracking Post-Hibernation Behavior and Early Migration Does ...
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Kimberly:
Thanks for these additional hints - I have to check your advices on British papers; the study in Switzerland focusses on sexual habitat segregation during hunting season...so I am still wondering about the roost sites chosen by (middle european) females for hibernation.
All the best,
Ernst
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