An aerial-hawking bat uses stealth echolocation to counter moth hearing

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 1568-1572

  Goerlitz, Holger R ^a   Ter Hofstede, Hannah M ^a   Zeale, Matt R K ^a   Jones, Gareth ^a   Holderied, Marc W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; ECHOLOCATION; MOTH; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; MOTHS;

BARBASTELLA BARBASTELLUS; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 77956552950     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.07.046     Document Type: Article

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