Temperature Sensitive Programming of the Silkmoth Flight Clock: A Mechanism for Adapting to the Seasons
- 16 November 1973
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 182 (4113) , 727-729
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.182.4113.727
Abstract
Bats measure the distance to an object in terms of the time lag between their outgoing orientation sounds and the returning echo. For measurement of the time lag, the latency of response of a neuron to a stimulus must be nearly constant regardless of the stimulus amplitude and envelope. Otherwise, a large error would be introduced into the measurement. Bats have neurons that are specialized for echo ranging.Keywords
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