Frog-Hunting Bats Overcome Noisy Environments by Switching Sensory Channels
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Frog-Hunting Bats Overcome Noisy Environments by Switching Sensory Channels
In one of nature’s crueler fatal-attraction scenarios, a male túngara frog’s mating call also attracts frog-eating bats. Any hopes a frog has of disguising his call against background noise will be dashed by Smithsonian scientists in the Sept. 16 issue of Science magazine. Bats are efficient hunters even when it is too loud to hear their prey.
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