2009
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000429
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What a Plant Sounds Like: The Statistics of Vegetation Echoes as Received by Echolocating Bats

Abstract: A critical step on the way to understanding a sensory system is the analysis of the input it receives. In this work we examine the statistics of natural complex echoes, focusing on vegetation echoes. Vegetation echoes constitute a major part of the sensory world of more than 800 species of echolocating bats and play an important role in several of their daily tasks. Our statistical analysis is based on a large collection of plant echoes acquired by a biomimetic sonar system. We explore the relation between the… Show more

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“…Therefore, biotope recognition is fundamental for bats. Bats can use statistical properties of echoes from vegetation for the classification of typical biotope elements such as trees and bushes (Yovel et al, 2009, 2011). …”
Section: Basic Echolocation Tasks Of Foraging Batsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Therefore, biotope recognition is fundamental for bats. Bats can use statistical properties of echoes from vegetation for the classification of typical biotope elements such as trees and bushes (Yovel et al, 2009, 2011). …”
Section: Basic Echolocation Tasks Of Foraging Batsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Dolphins and porpoises could rely on the statistics of the school itself (e.g., typical distances within the school), similar to the approach suggested by Yovel et al [14] to classify plants which are also arrays of reflectors with typical statistics.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The second condition included two plastic plants in the same locations as the acrylic plates (Supporting Information Figure c). These plants most likely provided a soft and low amplitude echo (Yovel, Stilz, Franz, Boonman, & Schnitzler, ), opposed to a possibly higher amplitude echo from the acrylic plates. Shrews crawled through the plants most of the time, instead of walking around them.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%