Echolocating bats can use acoustic landmarks for spatial orientation

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 208, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 4399-4410

  Jensen, Marianne Egebjerg ^a,b,c   Moss, Cynthia F ^a   Surlykke, Annemarie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Tønder Gymnasium and HF   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acoustic landmark; Bat; Echolocation; Eptesicus fuscus; Orientation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; TIME; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; ORIENTATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EPTESICUS FUSCUS;

EID: 29744438490     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01901     Document Type: Article

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