Convergent acoustic field of view in echolocating bats

Nature

Volumn 493, Issue 7430, 2013, Pages 93-96

  Jakobsen, Lasse ^a   Ratcliffe, John M ^a   Surlykke, Annemarie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURVEY; ALLOMETRY; BAT; BODY SIZE; CORRELATION; ECHOLOCATION; PREY SIZE; WAVELENGTH;

ACOUSTIC FIELD OF VIEW; ACOUSTICS; ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; BODY SIZE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIRECTIONAL SONAR BEAM; ECHOLOCATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HABITAT; HYPOTHESIS; MOUTH; MOUTH SIZE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SONAR BEAM WIDTH; SOUND RELATED PHENOMENA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; ECOSYSTEM; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOUTH; NOSE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SKULL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

VESPERTILIONIDAE;

EID: 84871768063     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11664     Document Type: Article

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