Breaking the trade-off: rainforest bats maximize bandwidth and repetition rate of echolocation calls as they approach prey

Both mammals and birds experience a performance trade-off between producing vocalizations with high bandwidths and at high repetition rate. Echolocating bats drastically increase repetition rate from 2-20 calls s(-1) up to about 170 calls s(-1) prior to intercepting airborne prey in order to accurat...

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Main Authors: Hashim, R., Siemers, B.M., Schmieder, D.A., Kingston, T.
Format: Article
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/6/5/604.full.pdf
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/6/5/604.full.pdf
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