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Young bats learn to be discriminating when listening for their next meal

  • Written by Logan S. James, Research Associate in Animal Behavior, The University of Texas at Austin
imageA frog-eating bat approaches a túngara frog, one of its preferred foods.Grant Maslowski

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 perks up and wiggles its...

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