High duty cycle echolocation and prey detection by bats
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High duty cycle echolocation and prey detection by bats.
There are two very different approaches to laryngeal echolocation in bats. Although most bats separate pulse and echo in time by signalling at low duty cycles (LDCs), almost 20% of species produce calls at high duty cycles (HDCs) and separate pulse and echo in frequency. HDC echolocators are sensitive to Doppler shifts. HDC echolocation is well suited to detecting fluttering targets such as fly...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Biology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1477-9145,0022-0949
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.048967