: David Steve Jacobs, Anna Bastian
: Predator-Prey Interactions: Co-evolution between Bats and Their Prey
: Springer-Verlag
: 9783319324920
: 1
: CHF 56.90
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: Zoologie
: English
: 135
: Wasserzeichen
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
: PDF
This book provides a comprehensive review of the evolution of traits associated with predation and predator defense for bats and all of their prey, both invertebrates (e.g. insects) and vertebrates (e.g. frogs), in the context of co-evolution. It reviews current knowledge of how echolocation and passive hearing are used by bats to hunt prey in complete darkness. Also it highlights how prey have evolved counter measures to bat echolocation to avoid detection and capture. This includes the whole range of prey responses from being active at times when bats are inactive to the use of acoustic signals of their own to interfere with the echolocation system of bats.

Ass.-Prof. Dr. David Steve Jacobs 
Department of Biological Sciences 
Univ rsity of Cape Town 
Private Bag X3 
Rondebosch 7701 
Cape Town South 
Africa& bsp;

Depar ment of Biological Sciences 
Univ rsity of Cape Town 
Private Bag X3 
Rondebosch 7701 
Cape Town 
South Africa