Bat wing air pressures may deflect prey structures to provide echo cues for detecting prey in clutter

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1776-1779

  Kuc, Roman ^a   Kuc, Victor ^b  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b IONA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR FORCE; AIR PRESSURES; AIR PUFFS; CLUTTERED ENVIRONMENTS; LEAF SURFACES; TIME OF FLIGHT;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE;

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY);

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BAT; ECHOLOCATION; FLYING; FORELIMB; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; ODONATA; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TIME; ULTRASOUND; VIDEORECORDING;

AIR PRESSURE; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; CUES; ECHOLOCATION; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; ODONATA; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONICS; VIDEO RECORDING; WING;

EID: 84866289898     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4742752     Document Type: Article

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