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ArticleCommunicative & integrative biology2021

Bat target tracking strategies for prey interception.

Angeles Salles, Clarice A Diebold, Cynthia F Moss

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Article in Communicative & integrative biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Angeles SallesPsychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5726-4256
Clarice A DieboldPsychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3678-3003
Cynthia F MossPsychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6916-0000

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Insectivorous bats capture their prey in flight with impressive success. They rely on the echoes of their own ultrasonic vocalization that yield acoustic snapshots, which enable target tracking on a rapid time scale. This task requires the use of intermittent information to navigate a dynamically changing environment. Bats may solve this challenging task by building internal models that estimate target velocity to anticipate the future location of a prey item. This has been recently tested empirically in perched bats tracking a target moving across their acoustic field. In this report, we build on past work to propose a new model that describes bat flight trajectories employing predictive strategies. Furthermore, we compare this model with a previous model of bat target interception that has also been employed by some visually guided animals: parallel navigation.

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echolocationEcholocationparallel navigationpredictive trackingsteering laws

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PMID33796208
PMCPMC7971241

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