Trawling bats exploit an echo-acoustic ground effect
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Trawling bats exploit an echo-acoustic ground effect
A water surface acts not only as an optic mirror but also as an acoustic mirror. Echolocation calls emitted by bats at low heights above water are reflected away from the bat, and hence the background clutter is reduced. Moreover, targets on the surface create an enhanced echo. Here, we formally quantified the effect of the surface and target height on both target detection and -discrimination ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Physiology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1664-042X
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2013.00065