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using environmental features with distinctive acoustic cues as landmarks. This behavior suggests they possess an acoustic mental map of their home range.

Bats can use this acoustic information to distinguish between environmental features such as a tree and a road, and thus use them as acoustic landmarks. Bats have an acoustic mental map The study ...

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using environmental features with distinctive acoustic cues as landmarks. This behavior suggests they possess an acoustic mental map of their home range.