Acoustic scanning of natural scenes by echolocation in the big brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 212, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1011-1020

  Surlykke, Annemarie ^a   Ghose, Kaushik ^b   Moss, Cynthia F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Active sensing; Bat; Directionality; Echolocation; Scene analysis; Visual scanning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BAT; BEHAVIOR; ECHOLOCATION; FLYING; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; ORIENTATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEO RECORDING;

ANIMALIA; EPTESICUS; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 63849312625     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.024620     Document Type: Article

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