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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