Scaling of Wingbeat and Echolocation Pulse Emission Rates in Bats: Why are Aerial Insectivorous Bats so Small?

1 August 1994

journal article
Published by JSTOR in Functional Ecology

Vol. 8 (4) , 450
https://doi.org/10.2307/2390068

Abstract

1. It has been proposed that echolocating bats normally emit one call per wingbeat when searching for prey. The coupling of sound production with flapping makes...

Keywords

RATES
ECHOLOCATION PULSE
AERIAL INSECTIVOROUS
PULSE EMISSION
INSECTIVOROUS BATS
SCALING OF WINGBEAT

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