Northern bats, Eptesicus nilssonii, use vision but not flutter-detection when searching for prey in clutter

Oikos

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 347-351

  Eklöf, Johan ^a   Svensson, A Monica ^a   Rydell, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAT; ECHOLOCATION; PREY LOCATION; VISUAL CUE;

EPTESICUS; EPTESICUS NILSSONI; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0036859511     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.990216.x     Document Type: Article

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