Complex echo classification by echo-locating bats: A review

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

Volumn 197, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 475-490

  Yovel, Yossi ^a,c   Franz, Matthias O ^b   Stilz, Peter ^c   Schnitzler, Hans Ulrich ^c  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bat; Behavior; Classification; Echolocation; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BAT; CLASSIFICATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ECHOLOCATION; ETHOLOGY; HEARING; METHODOLOGY; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHIROPTERA; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ECHOLOCATION; ETHOLOGY; ORIENTATION; PITCH DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 79955064203     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-010-0584-7     Document Type: Review

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