Journal article
Sonar strobe groups and buzzes are produced before powered flight is achieved in the juvenile big brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus
Abstract
Laryngeally echolocating bats produce a rapid succession of echolocation calls just before landing. These landing buzzes exhibit an increase in call rate and a decrease in call peak frequency and duration relative to pre-buzz calls, and resemble the terminal buzz phase calls of an aerial hawking bat's echolocation attack sequence. Sonar strobe groups (SSGs) are clustered sequences of non-buzz calls whose pulse intervals (PIs) are fairly regular …
Authors
Mayberry HW; Faure PA; Ratcliffe JM
Journal
Journal of Experimental Biology, Vol. 222, No. 20,
Publisher
The Company of Biologists
Publication Date
October 15, 2019
DOI
10.1242/jeb.209163
ISSN
0022-0949