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Bat echolocation calls as public information: from neurons to predator-prey communities

Termin: 
Mo, 27.05.2019 - 17:15 Uhr
Treffpunkt: 
Poppelsdorfer Schloss
Ort: 
Hörsaal
Veranstaltungsart: 
Vortrag
Veranstaltungsreihe: 
Biologisches/Evolutionsbiologisches Kolloquium
Zielgruppe: 
Studierende
Vortragende / Vortragender: 
Dr. Holger Görlitz, MPI für Ornithologie, Seewiesen

Active sensory systems, such as echolocation, evolved for the benefit of the sender. However, as active systems constantly radiate energy into the environment, they also provide ample public information to friends and foe.

Echolocating bats move swiftly in 3D space, often in dense aggregations, using sound to interact with their environment, other bats of the same and different species, and their prey.

Here, I will discuss current findings and ideas, first about how bats use echo information for imaging properties of their environment, second about echolocation calls as public information in social environments, and third about using sound for camouflage and deception in the predator-prey-system of bats and eared insects.

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Biologisches Kolloquium

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Institut für Evolutionsbiologie und Ökologie
An der Immenburg 1, 53121 Bonn

 

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Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversitätswandels, Museum Koenig Bonn
Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn

 

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