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SUBMITTER: Greif S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3060641 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Greif Stefan S Siemers Björn M BM
Nature communications 20101102
In the course of their lives, most animals must find different specific habitat and microhabitat types for survival and reproduction. Yet, in vertebrates, little is known about the sensory cues that mediate habitat recognition. In free flying bats the echolocation of insect-sized point targets is well understood, whereas how they recognize and classify spatially extended echo targets is currently unknown. In this study, we show how echolocating bats recognize ponds or other water bodies that are ...[more]