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Echolocating whales use ultra-fast echo-kinetic responses to track evasive prey
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2021
bioRxiv
pre-print
Visual predators rely on fast-acting optokinetic reflexes to track and capture agile prey. Most toothed whales, however, rely on echolocation for hunting and have converged on biosonar clicking rates reaching 500/s during prey pursuits. If echoes are processed on a click-by-click basis, as assumed, neural responses 100x faster than those in vision are required to keep pace with this information flow. Using high-resolution bio-logging of wild predator-prey interactions we show that toothed
doi:10.1101/2021.08.10.455788
fatcat:7wdcyvqo35g6bh7c4pnhonw55i