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Perspectives and Challenges for Future Research in Bat Hearing

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Bat Bioacoustics

Part of the book series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research ((SHAR,volume 54))

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This chapter is intended to identify some of the major challenges that only now emerge as technically feasible when studying hearing in bats. These technical advances include all aspects of biological research, from novel genetic tools to novel recording techniques of ultrasonic audio, high-speed video, and global positioning data. Most recently, on-board and telemetric recording techniques for both ultrasound and electrode signals allow for unprecedented insight into the neuroethology of bat hearing and echolocation from awake and behaving animals engaged in a clearly defined perceptual task. Only with these new techniques will we be able to address specializations in the bat vocalization and auditory systems, from its genetic foundations to its behavioral dynamics. We hope that the current chapter is received as an ‘appetizer’ for young biologists across disciplines to focus their scientific efforts onto the fascinating topic of how it is to be a bat that has made the nocturnal air space its home.

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The authors thank Uwe Firzlaff for helpful comments on an earlier version. And we extend special thanks to the >1,200 species of bats, whose extraordinary capabilities are the inspiration for this book.

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  1. Division of Neurobiology, Department Biology II, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Großhaderner Straße 2, Planegg-Martinsried, D-82152, Germany

    Lutz Wiegrebe

  2. Department of Physiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of CaliforniaUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA

    Alan D. Grinnell

  3. Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, N6A 5B7

    M. Brock Fenton

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Wiegrebe, L., Grinnell, A.D., Fenton, M.B. (2016). Perspectives and Challenges for Future Research in Bat Hearing. In: Fenton, M., Grinnell, A., Popper, A., Fay, R. (eds) Bat Bioacoustics. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, vol 54. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3527-7_11

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