Tiger moth jams bat sonar

Science

Volumn 325, Issue 5938, 2009, Pages 325-327

  Corcoran, Aaron J ^a   Barber, Jesse R ^b   Conner, William E ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; BAT; INFRARED IMAGERY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MOTH; PREY LOCATION; SONAR; TOXIC ORGANISM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; BERTHOLDIA TRIGONA; CLICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; MOTH; NONHUMAN; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; MOTHS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOUND; ULTRASONICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ARCTIIDAE; BERTHOLDIA; EPTESICUS; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 67650825236     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1174096     Document Type: Article

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28. We thank F. Insana and the staff of the Southwestern Research Station for assistance collecting B. trigona; M. Cullen for providing bat care and training; N. Hristov and J. Muday for technical assistance; and B. Chadwell for software. M. Conner, J.-N. Jasmin, T. Eisner, and the Wake Forest University ecology group provided editorial comments. Funding for research was provided by National Science Foundation Grant IOB-0615164 to W.E.C. and a W.F.U. Dean's Fellowship to A.J.C.