Bats orient perfectly in complete darkness, relying upon their extraordinary echolocation abilities. In their world, bats are confronted with an immense amount of information, coded in echoes of their echolocation calls. Some information might be misleading, some might be essential for reliable orientation and object recognition. Thus, it is very interesting to investigate how bats deal with different kind of echoes. The first chapter of this book is about how bats, which heavily rely on information contained in echoes deal with misleading spatial information of echoes for accurate sound...
Bats orient perfectly in complete darkness, relying upon their extraordinary echolocation abilities. In their world, bats are confronted with an immen...