Journal article
A bony connection signals laryngeal echolocation in bats
Abstract
A bone of echolocationBats are highly specialized mammals — they can all fly, and many use echolocation to communicate and find prey. Work on a primitive fossil bat Onychonycteris finneyi suggested that although it could fly, it would not have been able to echolocate. Now a microcomputed tomography study of 26 bat species shows that in bats that use larynx-generated clicks to echolocate, the stylohyal bone in the throat is connected to the …
Authors
Veselka N; McErlain DD; Holdsworth DW; Eger JL; Chhem RK; Mason MJ; Brain KL; Faure PA; Fenton MB
Journal
Nature, Vol. 463, No. 7283, pp. 939–942
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
2 2010
DOI
10.1038/nature08737
ISSN
0028-0836