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F), sound-proof
chamber lined with anechoic foam (Gretch-Ken Industries,
Oregon). Bats were kept anesthetized throughout the course
of the experiments with additional urethane or pentobarbital
sodium(one-third of pre-surgical dose) injections. Acoustic stim-
ulation and data acquisition were driven by custom software and
Microstar DSP board based hardware. Programmable attenua-
tors (PA5, Tucker-Davis Technologies, Florida) allowed control of
sound intensities before amplication by an integrated amplier
(Yamaha AX430). Stimuli were delivered either using an LCY-
K100 ribbon tweeter (Madisound, Wisconsin) placed 8 in from
the left ear at 45