Echolocating bats cry out loud to detect their prey

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Surlykke, Annemarie ^a   Kalko, Elisabeth K V ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ECHOLOCATION; NONHUMAN; PANAMA; PHYLOGENY; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY SELECTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; ANIMAL; CRYING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; RECORDING;

MOLOSSIDAE; MORMOOPIDAE; NOCTILIONIDAE; VESPERTILIONIDAE;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; CRYING; ECHOLOCATION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; TAPE RECORDING;

EID: 44349098501     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002036     Document Type: Article

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