Vision complements echolocation in an aerial-hawking bat

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 481-483

  Rydell, Jens ^a   Eklöf, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAT; ECHOLOCATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; VISION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; ECHOLOCATION; MOTH; NONHUMAN; PREY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL ACUITY;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; VISION;

ANIMALIA; EPTESICUS; EPTESICUS NILSSONI; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0242266407     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-003-0464-x     Document Type: Article

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