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Predator–Prey Interactions: Co-evolution between Bats and Their Prey: SpringerBriefs in Animal Sciences

Autor David Steve Jacobs, Anna Bastian
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 feb 2017
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319324906
ISBN-10: 331932490X
Pagini: 102
Ilustrații: XI, 135 p.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2016
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Seria SpringerBriefs in Animal Sciences

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Chapter 1: An introduction to evolution and co-evolution.- Chapter 2: Bat echolocation: Adaptations for prey detection and capture.- Chapter 3: Non-auditory defenses of prey against bat predation.- Chapter 4: Passive and active acoustic defenses of prey against bat predation.- Chapter 5: Eavesdropping on mating calls: Have bats and frogs co-evolved?.- Chapter 6: Aerial warfare: Have bats and moths co-evolved?.- Chapter 7: Co-evolution: What is there left to learn?. 

Notă biografică

Ass.-Prof. Dr. David Steve Jacobs 
Department of Biological Sciences 
University of Cape Town 
Private Bag X3 
Rondebosch 7701 
Cape Town South 
Africa 

Dr. Anna Che Bastian 
Department of Biological Sciences 
University of Cape Town 
Private Bag X3 
Rondebosch 7701 
Cape Town 
South Africa

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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.

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Reviews present and future perspectives on the interaction between bats and their prey Offers insights into the evolution and co-evolution of echolocation Discusses defense strategies of prey against bat predation Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras