Ignoring the irrelevant: Auditory tolerance of audible but innocuous sounds in the bat-detecting ears of moths

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 241-245

  Fullard, James H ^a   Ratcliffe, John M ^b,d   Jacobs, David S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Auditory ecology; Bats; Cicadas; Discrimination; Moths

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; AUDITORY CUE; AVOIDANCE REACTION; BAT; ECHOLOCATION; HEARING; INSECT; SONG; TOLERANCE; VULNERABILITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR; ECHOLOCATION; ECOLOGY; FLYING; HEARING ACUITY; MALE; MOTH; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; RECOGNITION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SMELLING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ECHOLOCATION; FLOWERS; HEARING; HEMIPTERA; MOTHS; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

CICADA; CICADIDAE; HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA; HELICOVERPA ZEA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE; PLATYPLEURA CAPENSIS;

EID: 43049154597     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-007-0323-2     Document Type: Article

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