Perception of silent and motionless prey on vegetation by echolocation in the gleaning bat Micronycteris microtis

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1754, 2013, Pages

  Geipel, Inga ^a   Jung, Kirsten ^a   Kalko, Elisabeth K V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Acoustic clutter; Echolocation; Micronycteris microtis; Narrow space active gleaning insectivorous bat; Prey perception

Indexed keywords

BAT; DRAGONFLY; ECHOLOCATION; INSECTIVORE; PERCEPTION; UNDERSTORY;

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); HEXAPODA; MICRONYCTERIS MICROTIS;

EID: 84875257469     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2830     Document Type: Article

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