Bat navigation

Yossi Yovel; Nachum Ulanovsky

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.21031-6

Bat navigation

Yossi Yovel, Nachum Ulanovsky

School of Zoology

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Bats exhibit remarkable navigation capabilities on a wide range of spatial scales. In this chapter we summarize the current knowledge on bat navigation outdoors. We review previous research examining bats’ use of different navigation strategies, including (1) beaconing, (2) route-following, (3) path integration, and (4) mental map. We then discuss what is known about the encoding of three-dimensional space in the bat’s brain and its possible links to navigation. Finally, we highlight key open questions-at both the behavioral and neural levels-which should be pursued in future experiments to elucidate bat navigation and its neural mechanisms.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Curated Reference Collection in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology
Publisher	Elsevier Science Ltd.
Pages	333-345
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9780128093245
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.21031-6
State	Published - 1 Jan 2016

Keywords

Bats
Beaconing
Compass
Echolocation
Grid cells
Head-direction cells
Magnetosensation
Map
Navigation
Path integration
Place cells
Route-following
Spatial cognition
Spatial memory
Vision

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