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  • Bioacoustics
  • Animal Behavior
  • Sensory Ecology

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  • Noise is a pervasive challenge in biological systems, impacting acoustic communication.
  • Animals employ various strategies to mitigate noise, but performance rarely returns to noise-free levels.
  • Doppler shift compensation (DSC) is a precise echolocation behavior crucial for many species.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of acoustic interference on the Doppler shift compensation (DSC) of Pratt's roundleaf bats (Hipposideros pratti).
  • To determine if noise universally impairs motor performance in echolocating bats or if specific conditions can enhance performance.

Main Methods:

  • Quantified DSC performance in flying H. pratti under 10 types of bandpass-filtered noise and seven bat species' echolocation calls.
  • Included a silence control condition for comparison.
  • Analyzed DSC precision across various acoustic interference scenarios.

Main Results:

  • H. pratti maintained high DSC performance across all tested noise and playback conditions.
  • DSC precision unexpectedly increased under specific narrowband noise and heterospecific bat calls.
  • The acoustic stimuli that enhanced DSC coincided with the terminal frequency of H. pratti's echolocation calls.

Conclusions:

  • Contrary to expectations, acoustic interference does not universally degrade motor performance in echolocating bats.
  • H. pratti demonstrates exceptional resilience and even enhanced performance in DSC under certain noise conditions.
  • This suggests that some species may evolve specialized adaptations to benefit from specific acoustic environments.