The acoustic advantage of hunting at low heights above water: Behavioural experiments on the European 'trawling' bats Myotis capaccinii, M. dasycneme and M. daubentonii

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 204, Issue 22, 2001, Pages 3843-3854

  Siemers, Björn M ^a   Stilz, Peter ^a   Schnitzler, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bat; Convergence; Echolocation; Ensonification; Leucono ; Myotica dasycneme; Myotica daubentoniis; Myotica paccinii; Prey perception; Sensory ecology; Trawling

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ACOUSTICS; ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ACOUSTICS; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER;

ANIMALIA; MYOTIS; MYOTIS CAPACCINII; MYOTIS DASYCNEME; MYOTIS DAUBENTONI;

EID: 0035745709     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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