The benefits of insect-swarm hunting to echolocating bats, and its influence on the evolution of bat echolocation signals.

Predation on swarms of prey, especially using visual information, has drawn much interest in studies of collective movement. Surprisingly, in the field of biosonar this aspect of prey detection, which is probably very common, has received little to no attention. Here, we combine computer simulations...

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Main Authors: Arjan Boonman, Brock Fenton, Yossi Yovel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-12-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006873