Anti-bat tiger moth sounds: Form and function

Current Zoology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 358-369

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

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic aposematism; Arctiidae; Autocorrelation; Cross correlation; Sonar jamming

Indexed keywords

ARCTIIDAE; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 77952861741     PISSN: 00017302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/56.3.358     Document Type: Article

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