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Frog-hunting bats have ‘cocktail party effect’ workaround

In noisy environment, hunters shift from listening for croaks to using echolocation

fringe-lipped bat

NIGHT STALKER  A fringe-lipped bat, which hunts frogs by listening for their nighttime calls, has ways of compensating when unnatural human noises get in the way.

 

Alex Lang 

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

An experiment with fake frogs shows how certain bats adjust their hunting technique to compensate for unnatural noises.