Scanning behavior in echolocating common pipistrelle bats (Pipistrellus pipistrellus).

Echolocating bats construct an auditory world sequentially by analyzing successive pulse-echo pairs. Many other mammals rely upon a visual world, acquired by sequential foveal fixations connected by visual gaze saccades. We investigated the scanning behavior of bats and compared it to visual scannin...

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Main Authors: Anna-Maria Seibert, Jens C Koblitz, Annette Denzinger, Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3620330?pdf=render