How greater mouse-eared bats deal with ambiguous echoic scenes

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 197, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 505-514

  Melcon M L ^a,b   Yovel, Y ^a   Denzinger, A ^a   Schnitzler, H U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Approach; Echolocation; Greater mouse eared bats; Range ambiguity; Temporal pattern

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ECHOLOCATION; FLYING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ECHOLOCATION; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79955053912     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-010-0563-z     Document Type: Article

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