How Nectar-Feeding Bats Localize their Food: Echolocation Behavior of Leptonycteris yerbabuenae Approaching Cactus Flowers

Nectar-feeding bats show morphological, physiological, and behavioral adaptations for feeding on nectar. How they find and localize flowers is still poorly understood. While scent cues alone allow no precise localization of a floral target, the spatial properties of flower echoes are very precise an...

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Autores principales: Gonzalez-Terrazas, Tania P., Koblitz, Jens C., Fleming, Theodore H., Medellín, Rodrigo A., Kalko, Elisabeth K. V., Schnitzler, Hans-Ulrich, Tschapka, Marco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5042408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27684373
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0163492

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5042408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27684373
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0163492

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