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Echolocating bats emit a highly directional sonar sound beam in the field
Bats use echolocation or biosonar to navigate and find prey at night. They emit short ultrasonic calls and listen for reflected echoes. The beam width of the calls is central to the function of the sonar, but directionality of echolocation calls has never been measured from bats flying in the wild....
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The Royal Society
2008
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2664374/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19129126 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.1505 |