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It is late at night, and we are silently watching a bat in a roost through a night-vision camera. From a nearby speaker comes a long, rattling trill. Cane toad’s rattling trill call. The bat briefly ...

Scientists found that the fringe-lipped bat, known to eavesdrop on frog and toad mating calls to find its prey, learns to distinguish between palatable and unpalatable frogs and toads through ...

Researcher May Dixon discovered that frog-eating bats could recognize ringtones indicating a food reward up to four years later Vanessa Crooks Researchers used speakers to play ringtones to the bats ...

Wild fringe-lipped bats spend just one-tenth of the night in flight, but they can precisely snatch a calling frog and nab prey that rivals their own size Joshua Rapp Learn | Science Correspondent ...

Most bats use echolocation to navigate and hunt, but some use their ears for another trick: eavesdropping. Hunt like a bat! How baby bats learn to eavesdrop on their next meal There are over 1400 ...

A frog-eating bat approaches a túngara frog, one of its preferred foods. Image credit: Grant Maslowski It is late at night, and we are silently watching a bat in a roost through a night-vision camera.