Echolocating bats emit a highly directional sonar sound beam in the field

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1658, 2012, Pages 853-860

  Surlykke, Annemarie ^a   Pedersen, Simon Boel ^a,b   Jakobsen, Lasse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bat; Directionality; Echolocation; Field; Myotis; Sonar

Indexed keywords

BAT; BIOACOUSTICS; ECHOLOCATION; FIELDWORK; POND; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; ULTRASONICS; WILD POPULATION;

MYOTIS; MYOTIS DAUBENTONI;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; ECHOLOCATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 63849186060     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1505     Document Type: Article

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