Flexible echolocation behaviour of trawling bats during approach of continuous or transient prey cues

Trawling bats use echolocation not only to detect and classify acoustically continuous cues originated from insects at and above water surfaces, but also to detect small water-dwelling prey items breaking the water surface for a very short time, producing only transient cues to be perceived acoustic...

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Main Authors: Kirstin eÜbernickel, Marco eTschapka, Elisabeth K. V. Kalko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2013.00096/full