Acoustic localization of terrestrial wildlife: Current practices and future opportunities

TA Rhinehart, LM Chronister, T Devlin… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Autonomous acoustic recorders are an increasingly popular method for low‐disturbance,
large‐scale monitoring of sound‐producing animals, such as birds, anurans, bats, and other …

Sensing in a noisy world: lessons from auditory specialists, echolocating bats

AJ Corcoran, CF Moss - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
All animals face the essential task of extracting biologically meaningful sensory information
from the 'noisy'backdrop of their environments. Here, we examine mechanisms used by …

Weather conditions determine attenuation and speed of sound: Environmental limitations for monitoring and analyzing bat echolocation

HR Goerlitz - Ecology and evolution, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Echolocating bats are regularly studied to investigate auditory‐guided behaviors and as
important bioindicators. Bioacoustic monitoring methods based on echolocation calls are …

Echolocating bats use future-target information for optimal foraging

E Fujioka, I Aihara, M Sumiya… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
When seeing or listening to an object, we aim our attention toward it. While capturing prey,
many animal species focus their visual or acoustic attention toward the prey. However, for …

Bats coordinate sonar and flight behavior as they forage in open and cluttered environments

B Falk, L Jakobsen, A Surlykke… - Journal of Experimental …, 2014 - journals.biologists.com
Echolocating bats use active sensing as they emit sounds and listen to the returning echoes
to probe their environment for navigation, obstacle avoidance and pursuit of prey. The …

The role of head movements in the discrimination of 2-D shape by blind echolocation experts

JL Milne, MA Goodale, L Thaler - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2014 - Springer
Similar to certain bats and dolphins, some blind humans can use sound echoes to perceive
their silent surroundings. By producing an auditory signal (eg, a tongue click) and listening …

Arrayvolution: using microphone arrays to study bats in the field

JC Koblitz - Canadian Journal of Zoology, 2018 - cdnsciencepub.com
Some parameters of echolocation signals can be studied using a single receiver. However,
studying parameters such as source level, echolocation beam shape, and direction of signal …

Sensorimotor model of obstacle avoidance in echolocating bats

D Vanderelst, MW Holderied… - PLoS computational …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Bat echolocation is an ability consisting of many subtasks such as navigation, prey detection
and object recognition. Understanding the echolocation capabilities of bats comes down to …

Risso's dolphins plan foraging dives

P Arranz, KJ Benoit-Bird, BL Southall… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
Humans remember the past and use that information to plan future actions. Lab experiments
that test memory for the location of food show that animals have a similar capability to act in …

Vertical sonar beam width and scanning behavior of wild belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) in West Greenland

MJ Zahn, KL Laidre, P Stilz, MH Rasmussen… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Echolocation signals of wild beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) were recorded in 2013
using a vertical, linear 16-hydrophone array at two locations in the pack ice of Baffin Bay …