Discriminating individual big brown bat (eptesicus fuscus) sonar vocalizations in different recording situations

Bioacoustics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 189-210

  Burnett, Stephen C ^a   Kazial, Karry A ^a   Masters, W Mitchell ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big brown bat; Echolocation; Eptesicus fuscus; Individual discrimination

Indexed keywords

BAT; ECHOLOCATION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; VOCALIZATION;

EPTESICUS FUSCUS;

EID: 0035030030     PISSN: 09524622     EISSN: 21650586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09524622.2001.9753462     Document Type: Article

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