The voice of bats: How greater mouse-eared bats recognize individuals based on their echolocation calls

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Yovel, Yossi ^a   Melcon, Mariana Laura ^a   Franz, Matthias O ^b   Denzinger, Annette ^a   Schnitzler, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALS; SONAR;

BAT ECHOLOCATION; CONSPECIFICS; DECISION STRATEGY; ECHOLOCATION CALLS; INDIVIDUAL RECOGNITION; INDIVIDUAL-BASED; SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR; SPECIFIC INFORMATION; SPECTRA'S; STATISTICAL CLASSIFIER;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BAT; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; VOICE; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

MYOTIS; MYOTIS MYOTIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHIROPTERA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECHOLOCATION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 67650866700     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000400     Document Type: Article

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