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I am the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the\u00a0David S. Olton Program in Behavioral Biology<\/a>\u00a0and the PI and director for the NSF funded\u00a0REU Site: Biological Basis of Behavior<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

I am interested in the evolution of vocal and social complexity. Everyone would agree that humans have the greatest vocal complexity known. However, even though a great deal of research has focused on speech production and language evolution, these topics remain highly controversial. This is in part because only a handful of animals use complex vocal signals. Song birds have been our main model for the neurophysiology of speech and the evolution of complex vocalizations. Our goal is to add bats as a new comparative model to better understand the production and evolution of vocal complexity.<\/p>\r\n

Why Bats? -Bats are diverse with over 1,200 species, extremely social, very vocal and have a highly specialized audio-vocal system for echolocation. This sonar system requires neurocircuitry for using incoming echoes to rapidly modify outgoing vocalizations The recent development of high-speed data acquisition cards, small laptop computers with large storage capabilities, infrared lights and weather resistant ultrasonic microphones has resulted in a plethora of new discoveries, including elaborate bird-like songs.\u00a0<\/p>"],"ecpt_publications":["

Additional publications can be found on Google Scholar<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

Salles, A., Bohn, K.M and C.F. Moss. 2019. Auditory communication processing in bats: what we know and where to go. Behavioral Neuroscience.133:305-319.

Wilkinson, G.S.,\u00a0Carter, G.\u00a0Bohn, K.M., Caspers, B.,\u00a0Chaverri, G. Farine, D., G\u00fcnther, L. Kerth, G., Kn\u00f6rnschild, M., Mayer, F.,\u00a0Nagy, M., Ortega, J. and K. Patriquin. 2019.\u00a0Kinship, association and\u00a0social complexity in bats.\u00a0Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.73:7.

Bohn, K. M.\u00a0and E. H.\u00a0Gillam.\u00a02018. In-flight social\u00a0calls: a primer for biologists and managers studying echolocation.\u00a0Canadian Journal of Zoology\u00a096: 787-\u00a0800.

Smotherman, M.,\u00a0Kn\u00f6rnschild, M., Smarsh, G. and\u00a0K. Bohn.\u00a02016. The origins and diversity of bat songs.\u00a0Journal of Comparative\u00a0Physiology A,202: 535-554.

Wilkinson, G.S.,\u00a0Carter, G.G.,\u00a0Bohn, K.M. and D.M.\u00a0Adams. 2016. Non-kin cooperation in bats.\u00a0Philosophical Transactions of\u00a0the Royal Society B,\u00a0371:20150095.

Kershenbaum, A., Blumstein, D.T., Roch, M. Akcay, C. Backus, G. Bee, M.,\u00a0Bohn, K.\u00a0and 20 others.. 2014.\u00a0Acoustic sequences in non-human\u00a0animals: a tutorial review and prospectus.\u00a0Biological\u00a0Reviews\u00a019:15-32.

Kershenbaum, A.,\u00a0Bowles, A.E., Freeberg, T.M., Jin, D.Z., Lameira, A.R. and\u00a0K. M. Bohn. 2014. Animal vocal sequences: not the Markov chains we\u00a0thought they were.\u00a0Proceedings of the\u00a0Royal\u00a0Society B. 281: 20141370.

Bohn, K.M., Smarsh, G. and\u00a0M.S. Smotherman. 2013.\u00a0Social context evokes rapid changes in\u00a0bat song syntax.\u00a0Animal Behaviour,\u00a085:1485-91

Martinez, J.G.,\u00a0Bohn, K.M., Morris, J.S., and R.J.\u00a0Carroll. 2013. A study of Brazilian free-tailed bat chirp syllables:\u00a0multi-domain composite transform modeling of nonstationary time series data\u00a0with\u00a0high frequency content using Bayesian functional mixed models.\u00a0Journal of the American Statistical\u00a0Association, 108:514-526.

Jarvis, J.,\u00a0Bohn, K.M., Tressler, J. and M.\u00a0Smotherman. 2010. Antiphonal echolocation strategies used by free-tailed bats.\u00a0Animal Behaviour, 79: 787-796.\u00a0(A\u00a0featured article in Animal\u00a0Behaviour 79:769-770)

Bohn, K.M., French,\u00a0B., Schwartz, C., Smotherman, M. and G. Pollak. 2009. Versatility and\u00a0stereotypy of free-tailed bat songs.\u00a0PLoS\u00a0ONE 4(8):\u00a0e6746.

Bohn, K. M., Moss,\u00a0C.F., and G. S. Wilkinson. 2009. Pup guarding by unrelated greater spear-nosed\u00a0bats.\u00a0Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology,\u00a063:1693-1703

Bohn, K.M.,\u00a0Schmidt-French, B., Ma, T.S. and G. D. Pollak. 2008. Syllable acoustics,\u00a0temporal patterns and call composition vary with behavioral context in Mexican\u00a0free-tailed bats.\u00a0Journal of the\u00a0Acoustical Society of America\u00a0124:1838 - 1848.

Bohn, K. M.,\u00a0Wilkinson, G. S. and C. F. Moss. 2007. Discrimination of infant isolation calls\u00a0by female greater spear-nosed bats,\u00a0Phyllostomus\u00a0hastatus.\u00a0Animal Behaviour\u00a073:423\u00a0- 432

Bohn, K. M., Moss, C.\u00a0F. and G. S. Wilkinson. 2006. Correlated evolution between hearing sensitivity\u00a0and social calls in bats.\u00a0Biology Letters\u00a02:561 - 564.

Bohn, K. M., Boughman,\u00a0J. W., Wilkinson, G. S., and C. F. Moss. 2004. Auditory sensitivity and\u00a0frequency selectivity in greater spear-nosed bats suggest specializations for\u00a0acoustic\u00a0communication.\u00a0Journal of\u00a0Comparative Physiology. A. 190:185-192.

Book Chapters \/ Encyclopedias<\/strong>

Salles, A and Bohn, K.M. 2019. Microchiropteran Communication. In: Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior (J. Vong and T. Shackelford eds). Springer.\u00a0

Bohn, K.M.\u00a0and G.G.\u00a0Carter. 2017.\u00a0Reciprocal altruism and\u00a0cooperation for mutual benefit.\u00a0Encyclopedia\u00a0of Evolutionary Psychological Science\u00a0(T.K. Shackelford and V.A.\u00a0Weekes-Shackelford eds)

Bohn, K.M.\u00a0and G.G.\u00a0Carter. 2017.\u00a0Altruism among non-kin.In:\u00a0Encyclopedia of Evolutionary\u00a0Psychological Science\u00a0(T.K. Shackelford and V.A. Weekes-Shackelford eds)

Smotherman, M.,\u00a0Bohn, K., Davis, K., Rogers, K. and\u00a0Schwartz, C.P. 2016. Daily and Seasonal Patterns of Singing by the Mexican\u00a0Free-Tailed Bat,\u00a0Tadarida brasiliensis.\u00a0In\u00a0Sociality in Bats, pp.\u00a0197-209. Springer International\u00a0Publishing.

Bohn, K.,\u00a0Montiel-Reyes,\u00a0F. and Salazar, I., 2016. The Complex Songs of Two Molossid Species. In\u00a0Sociality\u00a0in Bats\u00a0(pp. 143-160). Springer International Publishing.

Pollak, G.D.,\u00a0Andoni, S.\u00a0Bohn, K. and J. X.\u00a0Gittelman. 2013\u00a0The repertoire of\u00a0communication calls emitted by bats and the way the calls are processed in the\u00a0inferior colliculus.\u00a0\u00a0In:\u00a0Animal Models\u00a0of Speech and Language.\u00a0\u00a0S. Helekar (ed), Springer-Verlag.<\/p>"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/behavioralbiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/behavioralbiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/behavioralbiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/behavioralbiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4485,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/behavioralbiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/342\/revisions\/4485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/behavioralbiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/behavioralbiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"role","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/behavioralbiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/role?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"filter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/behavioralbiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filter?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}