Dominant glint based prey localization in horseshoe bats: a possible strategy for noise rejection.

Rhinolophidae or Horseshoe bats emit long and narrowband calls. Fluttering insect prey generates echoes in which amplitude and frequency shifts are present, i.e. glints. These glints are reliable cues about the presence of prey and also encode certain properties of the prey. In this paper, we propos...

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Main Authors: Dieter Vanderelst, Jonas Reijniers, Uwe Firzlaff, Herbert Peremans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-12-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3228768?pdf=render