Auditory opportunity and visual constraint enabled the evolution of echolocation in bats

Substantial evidence now supports the idea that the ancestral bat was a small, night flying predator capable of laryngeal echolocation. Here, the authors confirm this hypothesis using phylogenetic comparative analyses and further suggest an underlying tradeoff between echolocation and vision in both...

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Auteurs principaux: Jeneni Thiagavel, Clément Cechetto, Sharlene E. Santana, Lasse Jakobsen, Eric J. Warrant, John M. Ratcliffe
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Langue:EN
Publié: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/3827926073c74200925b67a0c14b740a
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