The degradation of distance discrimination in big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) caused by different interference signals

Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 179, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 703-713

  Masters, W M ^a   Raver, K A S ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clutter; Eptesicus fuscus; Interference; Jamming; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

EPTESICUS FUSCUS;

EID: 0030294024     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00216134     Document Type: Article

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