Bats use second sense to hunt prey in noisy environments
Thursday, September 15, 2016 - 19:01
in Biology & Nature
Like many predators, the fringe-lipped bat primarily uses its hearing to find its prey, but with human-generated noise on the rise, scientists are examining how bats and other animals might adapt to find their next meal. According to a new study, when noise masks the mating calls of the bat's prey, túngara frogs, the bat shifts to another sensory mode -- echolocation.