High duty cycle echolocation and prey detection by bats

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 214, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1131-1137

  Lazure, Louis ^a   Fenton, M Brock ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bat; Duty cycle; Echolocation; Evolution; Foraging; Prey detection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; BELIZE; ECHOLOCATION; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD CHAIN; HEARING; MOTH; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAIWAN;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BELIZE; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD CHAIN; MOTHS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TAIWAN;

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 79955009079     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.048967     Document Type: Article

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