From spatial orientation to food acquisition in echolocating bats

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 386-394

  Schnitzler, Hans Ulrich ^a   Moss, Cynthia F ^b   Denzinger, Annette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAT; ECHOLOCATION; EVOLUTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; ORIENTATION;

EID: 0042165905     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(03)00185-X     Document Type: Article

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