Dynamics of jamming avoidance in echolocating bats

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1547, 2004, Pages 1467-1475

  Ulanovsky, Nachum ^a,e   Fenton, M Brock ^b,d   Tsoar, Asaf ^a   Korine, Carmi ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Echolocating bats; Jamming avoidance response; Tadarida teniotis; Taphozous perforatus

Indexed keywords

BAT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMMUNICATION; CONSPECIFIC; ECHOLOCATION; PREY LOCATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; FLYING; FREQUENCY MODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; ELECTRIC FISH; EMBALLONURIDAE; MOLOSSIDAE; PISCES; TADARIDA; TADARIDA TENIOTIS; TAPHOZOUS; TAPHOZOUS PERFORATUS;

EID: 3242664507     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2750     Document Type: Article

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