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Tiny recording backpacks reveal bats’ surprising hunting strategy

  • Written by Leonie Baier, Postdoctoral Fellow in Behavioral Biology, Naturalis Biodiversity Center
imageA fringe-lipped bat carries a sound-and-movement biologging tag.Leonie Baier, CC BY-SA

Deep into the Panamanian night, the forest hums with sound. Chirping insects form a steady backdrop, rain softly trickles from leaves. Somewhere above a stream, frogs call into the darkness.

But I am not there to see this scene.

It’s already passed. What I...

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