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Table 2 Mean (± SE) behavioral performances and behavioral repeatability (assessed by R value with 95% CI in parenthesis) of eastern bent-wing bats in tunnel-box tests.

From: Context-specific variation and repeatability in behavioral traits of bent-wing bats

Behavioral measurements

Trial 1 (n = 215)

Trial 2 (n = 214)

Repeatability

Emergence latency1*

232.22 ± 15.67

177.26 ± 15.21

0.21 (0.07, 0.33)

Corner emergence latency

453.01 ± 11.10

421.70 ± 12.01

0.33 (0.20, 0.45)

Percent time climbing

1.36 ± 0.11

1.62 ± 0.12

0.31 (0.18, 0.42)

Distance climbed

106.23 ± 8.54

112.00 ± 7.70

0.33 (0.21, 0.44)

Area climbed1**

377.13 ± 17.78

460.72 ± 21.81

0.35 (0.21, 0.46)

Climbing speed

0.71 ± 0.06

0.80 ± 0.05

0.39 (0.26, 0.50)

Climbing efficiency

3.36 ± 1.31

1.88 ± 0.70

0.44 (0.33, 0.54)

Recess-visiting1*

0.22 ± 0.04

0.42 ± 0.07

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Grooming1*

39.18 ± 4.87

23.42 ± 4.05

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  1. 1Between-trial difference, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01; 2 Excluded from the repeatability analysis because the behavior occurred in less than half of the bats tested.
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Zoological Letters

ISSN: 2056-306X

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