About the Authors

Sébastien J. Puechmaille

s.puechmaille@gmail.com

Current address: Zoology Institute, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Greifswald, Germany

Affiliations Sensory Ecology Group, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany, School of Biology & Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland, Tabachka Bat Research Station, Tabachka, Bulgaria

Ivailo M. Borissov

Affiliations Sensory Ecology Group, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany, Tabachka Bat Research Station, Tabachka, Bulgaria

Sándor Zsebok

Affiliations Sensory Ecology Group, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany, Tabachka Bat Research Station, Tabachka, Bulgaria, MTA-ELTE-MTM Ecology Research Group, Budapest, Hungary

Benjamin Allegrini

Affiliation Naturalia environnement, Gallargues-le-Montueux, France

Mohammed Hizem

Affiliation Tunis Superior Institute for Biological Applied Sciences, Tunis, Tunisia

Sven Kuenzel

Affiliation Department Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany

Maike Schuchmann

Affiliations Sensory Ecology Group, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany, Tabachka Bat Research Station, Tabachka, Bulgaria

Emma C. Teeling

These authors are last authors on this work.

Affiliation School of Biology & Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Björn M. Siemers

† Deceased.

These authors are last authors on this work.

Affiliations Sensory Ecology Group, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany, Tabachka Bat Research Station, Tabachka, Bulgaria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the paper: SJP. Performed the behavioural experiments: SJP. Wrote the MatLab script for the playback experiments: SZ. Helped with DNA sample collection: BA MH. Recorded echolocation calls: SJP MS. Captured animals and collected the morphometric measurements: IMB. Generated the 454 data: SK. Edited the paper: ECT BMS.