Echolocation and flight strategy of Japanese house bats during natural foraging, revealed by a microphone array system

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1081-1088

  Fujioka, Emyo ^a   Mantani, Shigeki ^a   Hiryu, Shizuko ^a   Riquimaroux, Hiroshi ^a   Watanabe, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICAL PARAMETERS; CONSTANT FREQUENCY; ECHOLOCATION PULSE; MICROPHONE ARRAY SYSTEM; PREY CAPTURE; PULSE DURATIONS;

MAMMALS; MICROPHONES; UNDERWATER AUDITION;

FLIGHT PATHS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; ECHOLOCATION; FLYING; INSTRUMENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME; TRANSDUCER; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 79952128107     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3523300     Document Type: Article

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