Echolocating toothed whales use ultra-fast echo-kinetic responses to track evasive prey
Visual predators rely on fast-acting optokinetic responses 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 pu rsuits. If echoes are processed on a click by click basis, as assumed...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:5514270 2024-09-15T18:10:41+00:00 Echolocating toothed whales use ultra-fast echo-kinetic responses to track evasive prey Vance, Heather Madsen, Peter Aguilar de Soto, Natacha Wisniewska, Danuta Ladegaard, Michael Hooker, Sascha Johnson, Mark 2021-09-21 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n8pk0p2w1 unknown Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5175844 https://zenodo.org/communities/dryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n8pk0p2w1 oai:zenodo.org:5514270 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode toothed-whales response latency Harbour Porpoise Blainville's beaked whale info:eu-repo/semantics/other 2021 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n8pk0p2w110.5281/zenodo.5175844 2024-07-25T18:02:08Z Visual predators rely on fast-acting optokinetic responses 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 pu rsuits. 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 whales adjust clicking rates to track prey movement within 50 200 ms of prey escape responses. Hypothesising that these stereotyped biosonar adjustments are elicited by sudden prey accelerations, we measured echo kinetic responses from trained harb our porpoises to a moving target and found similar latencies. High biosonar sampling rates are, therefore, not supported by extreme speeds of neural processing and muscular responses. Instead, the neuro kinetic response times in echolocation are similar to those of tracking responses in vision, suggesting a common neural underpinning. This data set is divided into wild harbour porpoise data (files beginning with hp), wild beaked whale data (files beginning with md) and trained harbour porpoise data (files beginning with either Freja17 or Sif17). The wild data represent the echolocation responses of harbour porpoise and beaked whales to their prey in the wild. The trained harbour porpoise data represents echolocation responses to a moving aluminium sphere target in a captive setting. Each file contains an individual prey encounter/moving target trial. The data is presented in a NetCDF format and includes additional metadata within each data structure. The structures included are 1) X -the sound envelope 2) CL - the timing of echolocation clicks relative to the start of the sound envelope 3) R- the time of prey/target movement relative to start of sound extract and distance from prey/target during movement 4) info- an information structure for the tag deployment and 5) for trained ... Other/Unknown Material Harbour porpoise toothed whales Zenodo |
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Visual predators rely on fast-acting optokinetic responses 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 pu rsuits. 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 whales adjust clicking rates to track prey movement within 50 200 ms of prey escape responses. Hypothesising that these stereotyped biosonar adjustments are elicited by sudden prey accelerations, we measured echo kinetic responses from trained harb our porpoises to a moving target and found similar latencies. High biosonar sampling rates are, therefore, not supported by extreme speeds of neural processing and muscular responses. Instead, the neuro kinetic response times in echolocation are similar to those of tracking responses in vision, suggesting a common neural underpinning. This data set is divided into wild harbour porpoise data (files beginning with hp), wild beaked whale data (files beginning with md) and trained harbour porpoise data (files beginning with either Freja17 or Sif17). The wild data represent the echolocation responses of harbour porpoise and beaked whales to their prey in the wild. The trained harbour porpoise data represents echolocation responses to a moving aluminium sphere target in a captive setting. Each file contains an individual prey encounter/moving target trial. The data is presented in a NetCDF format and includes additional metadata within each data structure. The structures included are 1) X -the sound envelope 2) CL - the timing of echolocation clicks relative to the start of the sound envelope 3) R- the time of prey/target movement relative to start of sound extract and distance from prey/target during movement 4) info- an information structure for the tag deployment and 5) for trained ... |
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Vance, Heather Madsen, Peter Aguilar de Soto, Natacha Wisniewska, Danuta Ladegaard, Michael Hooker, Sascha Johnson, Mark |
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Vance, Heather Madsen, Peter Aguilar de Soto, Natacha Wisniewska, Danuta Ladegaard, Michael Hooker, Sascha Johnson, Mark |
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Echolocating toothed whales use ultra-fast echo-kinetic responses to track evasive prey |
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Echolocating toothed whales use ultra-fast echo-kinetic responses to track evasive prey |
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Echolocating toothed whales use ultra-fast echo-kinetic responses to track evasive prey |
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Echolocating toothed whales use ultra-fast echo-kinetic responses to track evasive prey |
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Echolocating toothed whales use ultra-fast echo-kinetic responses to track evasive prey |
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echolocating toothed whales use ultra-fast echo-kinetic responses to track evasive prey |
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