Published June 24, 2019 | Version v1

Bats actively use leaves as specular reflectors to detect acoustically camouflaged prey

  • 1. aSmithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama
  • 2. CoSys Lab, Faculty of Applied Engineering, University of Antwerp, Belgium
  • 3. Institute of Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics, University of Ulm, Germany
  • 4. Center for Cognition, Action, & Perception, Department of Psychology, University of Cincinnati, USA
  • 5. Animal Physiology, Institute for Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Germany
  • 6. Department of Engineering Management, University of Antwerp, Belgium
  • 7. Animal Ecology, Ecological Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Description

Measured target strength from 541 positions for 5 different frequency bands. Bat positions in incidence angles of for 33 flight paths.

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