Tongue-driven sonar beam steering by a lingual-echolocating fruit bat.
Animals enhance sensory acquisition from a specific direction by movements of head, ears, or eyes. As active sensing animals, echolocating bats also aim their directional sonar beam to selectively "illuminate" a confined volume of space, facilitating efficient information processing by red...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2017-12-01
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| Series: | PLoS Biology |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5774845?pdf=render |