Echolocating bats use a nearly time-optimal strategy to intercept prey

PLoS Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 865-873

  Ghose, Kaushik ^a   Horiuchi, Timothy K ^a,b   Krishnaprasad, P S ^a,b   Moss, Cynthia F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; ECHOLOCATION; FLYING; INSECT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY; PREY SELECTION; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION; VIDEORECORDING; ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); CANIS FAMILIARIS; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECTS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646734023     PISSN: 15457885     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040108     Document Type: Article

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