ArticleScience advances2021
Hunting bats adjust their echolocation to receive weak prey echoes for clutter reduction.
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- Echolocators Are Smaller Than Their Non-Echolocating Relatives: Agility Counts in Dark, Three-Dimensional Habitats.Integrative zoology · 2026Article
- Onboard recordings reveal how bats maneuver under severe acoustic interference.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Fast vocal-motor tracking of escaping prey in echolocating bats.BMC biology · 2025Article
- Welfare and Enrichment of Managed Nocturnal Species, Supported by Technology.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Daubenton's bats maintain stereotypical echolocation behaviour and a lombard response during target interception in light.BMC zoology · 2024Article
- Buzzfindr: Automating the detection of feeding buzzes in bat echolocation recordings.PloS one · 2024Article
- Calibrated microphone array recordings reveal that a gleaning bat emits low-intensity echolocation calls even in open-space habitat.The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Article
- Adaptive echolocation behavior of bats and toothed whales in dynamic soundscapes.The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Article
- Echolocating bats prefer a high risk-high gain foraging strategy to increase prey profitability.eLife · 2023Article
- Drone exploration of bat echolocation: A UAV-borne multimicrophone array to study bat echolocation.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Echolocating toothed whales use ultra-fast echo-kinetic responses to track evasive prey.eLife · 2021Article
- Wild bats briefly decouple sound production from wingbeats to increase sensory flow during prey captures.iScience · 2021Article
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Abstract
How animals extract information from their surroundings to guide motor patterns is central to their survival. Here, we use echo-recording tags to show how wild hunting bats adjust their sensory strategies to their prey and natural environment. When searching, bats maximize the chances of detecting small prey by using large sensory volumes. During prey pursuit, they trade spatial for temporal information by reducing sensory volumes while increasing update rate and redundancy of their sensory scenes. These adjustments lead to very weak prey echoes that bats protect from interference by segregating prey sensory streams from the background using a combination of fast-acting sensory and motor strategies. Counterintuitively, these weak sensory scenes allow bats to be efficient hunters close to background clutter broadening the niches available to hunt for insects.
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