title: Sensory biology: listening in the dark for echoes from silent and stationary prey.
abstract: New research shows how bats use echolocation unexpectedly to detect silent and stationary prey in darkness. Bats may use acoustic search images to identify potential prey when prey-generated noises, visual and olfactory cues are absent.
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UG, UK. Gareth.Jones@bristol.ac.uk
authors.forename: Gareth
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002685:Chiroptera / Q000502:physiology*; D004455:Echolocation / Q000502:physiology*; D007313:Insecta / Q000254:growth & development*; D008297:Male; D011235:Predatory Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D014828:Vocalization, Animal / Q000502:physiology*