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Science 5 January 1979:
Vol. 203. no. 4375, pp. 16 - 21
DOI: 10.1126/science.758674
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Science, Vol 203, Issue 4375, 16-21
Copyright © 1979 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Echolocation and pursuit of prey by bats

JA Simmons, MB Fenton, and MJ O'Farrell

Echolocating bats use different information-gathering strategies for hunting prey in open, uncluttered environments, in relatively open environments with some obstacles, and in densely cluttered environments. These situations differ in the extent to which individual targets such as flying insects can be detected as isolated objects or must be separated perceptually from backgrounds. Echolocating bats also differ in whether they use high-resolution, multidimensional images of targets or concentrate specifically on one particular target dimension, such as movement, to detect prey.


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