Acoustic shadows help gleaning bats find prey, but may be defeated by prey acoustic camouflage on rough surfaces

Perceptual abilities of animals, like echolocating bats, are difficult to study because they challenge our understanding of non-visual senses. We used novel acoustic tomography to convert echoes into visual representations and compare these cues to traditional echo measurements. We provide a new hyp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Elizabeth L Clare, Marc W Holderied
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2015-09-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
bat
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/07404