What noseleaves do for FM bats depends on their degree of sensorial specialization.

BACKGROUND: Many bats vocalizing through their nose carry a prominent noseleaf that is involved in shaping the emission beam of these animals. To our knowledge, the exact role of these appendages has not been thoroughly investigated as for no single species both the hearing and the emission spatial...

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Main Authors: Dieter Vanderelst, Fons De Mey, Herbert Peremans, Inga Geipel, Elisabeth Kalko, Uwe Firzlaff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2922331?pdf=render