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SUBMITTER: de Framond L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10560550 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
de Framond Léna L Beleyur Thejasvi T Lewanzik Daniel D Goerlitz Holger R HR
The Journal of experimental biology 20230927 18
Echolocating bats use ultrasound for orientation and prey capture in darkness. Ultrasound is strongly attenuated in air. Consequently, aerial-hawking bats generally emit very intense echolocation calls to maximize detection range. However, call levels vary more than tenfold (>20 dB) between species and are tightly linked to the foraging strategy. The brown long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus) is a primarily gleaning, low-amplitude species that may occasionally hawk airborne prey. We used state-of-t ...[more]