How nature shaped echolocation in animals

• मुख्य लेखक: Cynthia F Moss (auth)
• अन्य लेखक: Mariana L Melcon (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• श्रृंखला: Frontiers Research Topics
• विषय: Physiology; bats; Biosonar; Humans; marine mammals; sensory biology; Birds; Behavior; Communication
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Echolocation has evolved in different groups of animals, from bats and cetaceans to birds and humans, and enables localization and tracking of objects in a dynamic environment, where light levels may be very low or absent. Nature has shaped echolocation, an active sense that engages audiomotor feedb...