ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2019
Sensory gaze stabilization in echolocating bats.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Integration of visual and antennal mechanosensory feedback during head stabilization in hawkmoths.eLife · 2022Article
- A bio-mimetic miniature drone for real-time audio based short-range tracking.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- Inflight head stabilization associated with wingbeat cycle and sonar emissions in the lingual echolocating Egyptian fruit bat, Rousettus aegyptiacus.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2021Article
- Adaptive learning and recall of motor-sensory sequences in adult echolocating bats.BMC biology · 2021Article
- The benefits of insect-swarm hunting to echolocating bats, and its influence on the evolution of bat echolocation signals.PLoS computational biology · 2019Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Sensing from a moving platform is challenging for both man-made machines and animals. Animals' heads jitter during movement, so if the sensors they carry are not stabilized, any spatial estimation might be biased. Flying animals, like bats, seriously suffer from this problem because flapping flight induces rapid changes in acceleration which moves the body up and down. For echolocating bats, the problem is crucial. Because they emit a sound to sense the world, an unstable head means sound energy pointed in the wrong direction. It is unknown how bats mitigate this problem. By tracking the head and body of flying fruit bats, we show that they stabilize their heads, accurately maintaining a fixed acoustic-gaze relative to a target. Bats can solve the stabilization task even in complete darkness using only echo-based information. Moreover, the bats point their echolocation beam below the target and not towards it, a strategy that should result in better estimations of target elevation.
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