Singing strategies are linked to perch use on foraging territories in heart-nosed bats

These data include the GPS data of 14 VHF telemetry tracked heart-nosed bats (Cardioderma cor) and associated singing behavior collected during the long dry season (May to October) in Tanzania. These data were used to establish that singing occurs on nighttime foraging areas, and that foraging areas are exclusive and repeatedly used, supporting the hypothesis that C. cor maintain individualistic foraging territories with singing. Times and locations of singing are included in the data set and linked to the GPS waypoints of perches individuals used repeatedly during then 4-6 nights of tracking. GPS data is organized by list of separate waypoints and whether they were used for singing. Furthermore, individuals sit in trees and sing for long stretches of time, and thus these durations were subsampled into 2 minute intervals and associated with the perch location to create a dateset of points for Kernal Density Estimates. Times and perch locations for KDE, including associated singing behavior, are also included. Finally, singing duration of each individual is broken down by perch, night, and hour. Of the 14 tracked individuals, 13 are male (one of which stopped singing soon after tracking commenced) and one is a nonsinging female.