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Egyptian fruit bats landing on an apple in the lab
Recent studies show that the SONAR system of these bats is much more sophisticated than previously believed. Yovel et al. (e1001150) show that they change their sonar’s field of view according to the environment’s complexity.
Image Credit: Yossi Yovel
Citation: (2011) PLoS Biology Issue Image | Vol. 9(9) September 2011. PLoS Biol 9(9): ev09.i09. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pbio.v09.i09
Published: September 27, 2011
Copyright: © 2011 Yovel. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Recent studies show that the SONAR system of these bats is much more sophisticated than previously believed. Yovel et al. (e1001150) show that they change their sonar’s field of view according to the environment’s complexity.
Image Credit: Yossi Yovel