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Great Gray Owls hunting voles under snow hover to defeat an acoustic mirage
How do Great Gray Owls (Strix nebulosa) capture voles (Cricetidae) through a layer of snow? As snow is a visual barrier, the owls locate voles by ear alone. To test how snow absorbs and refracts vole sound, we inserted a loudspeaker under the snowpack and analysed sound from the loudspeaker, first b...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9682441/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36416044 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1164 |