active sensing
- Echolocating bats inspect and discriminate landmark features to guide navigation
Summary: The echolocating bat controls the directional aim and temporal patterning of sonar calls to inspect and discriminate objects in a spatial navigation task.
- Sensing in a noisy world: lessons from auditory specialists, echolocating bats
Summary: Researchers use echolocating bats – with their adaptations for sound production and reception – as models for understanding how animals sense and communicate in noisy environments.
- Echo-acoustic scanning with noseleaf and ears in phyllostomid bats
Highlighted Article: Echolocating bats move their noseleaf (for sound emission) and their ears for fast and directed echo-acoustic exploration of their surroundings.