Acoustic mirror effect increases prey detection distance in trawling bats

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 272-276

  Siemers, Björn M ^a   Baur, Eric ^a   Schnitzler, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; BAT; PREY LOCATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BAT; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ECHOLOCATION; EVOLUTION; FORAGING; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; STEREOPHOTOGRAMMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

HEXAPODA; MYOTIS DASYCNEME;

EID: 21244463484     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-005-0622-4     Document Type: Article

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