Breaking the trade-off: rainforest bats maximize bandwidth and repetition rate of echolocation calls as they approach prey
Both mammals and birds experience a performance trade-off between producing vocalizations with high bandwidths and at high repetition rate. Echolocating bats drastically increase repetition rate from 2-20 calls s(-1) up to about 170 calls s(-1) prior to intercepting airborne prey in order to accurat...
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2010
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