Dominant glint based prey localization in horseshoe bats: A possible strategy for noise rejection

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Vanderelst, Dieter ^a   Reijniers, Jonas ^a   Firzlaff, Uwe ^b   Peremans, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALS; SONAR; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

AMPLITUDE VARIATIONS; FREQUENCY SHIFT; INSECT PREY; MOST LIKELY; NARROW BANDS; NOISE REJECTION; NUMBER OF SAMPLES; PREY LOCALISATION; PROPERTY;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PROCESS MODEL; RELIABILITY; RHINOLOPHUS ROUXII; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; EXTERNAL EAR; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY;

HEXAPODA; RHINOLOPHIDAE; RHINOLOPHUS; RHINOLOPHUS ROUXII;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EAR, EXTERNAL; ECHOLOCATION; ENTROPY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE;

EID: 84855275542     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002268     Document Type: Article

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