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Date

29/04/2015

Author

Tyack, Peter Lloyd

Funder

Office of Naval Research

Grant ID

N00014-14-1-0396

Keywords

Phocoena phocoena

Beam directionality

Convergent evolution

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Abstract

When close to prey, porpoises actively widen their sonar beam, which may make it harder for the prey to escape.

Citation

Tyack , P L 2015 , ' Echolocation : clicking for supper ' , eLife , vol. 4 , e07690 . https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.07690

Publication

eLife

Status

Peer reviewed

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.07690

ISSN

2050-084X

Type

Journal article

Rights

© 2015, Tyack. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.

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URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6702

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