Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A frog-eating bat approaches a túngara frog, one of its preferred foods. Grant Maslowski It is late at night, and we are silently ...

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A fringe-lipped bat, Trachops cirrhosus, approaches a Fitzinger's robber frog, Craugastor fitzingeri, in Panama. This species of bat eavesdrops on the mating calls that male frogs produce to attract ...

The love songs of these Panamanian frogs is a dinner bell for fringe-lipped bats. But how do they learn which frogs and toads are safe to eat and which are poisonous? A fringe-lipped bat zeroes in on ...

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Tropical bats learn to “eavesdrop” on their prey over time to help distinguish between tasty and toxic frogs, a new analysis suggests. The study looked at fringe-lipped bats that range from Panama to ...

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.

A fringe-lipped bat, Trachops cirrhosus, responds to the calls of the túngara frog, Engystomops pustulosus, one of its preferred prey species. First, the bat hears the call of a single male túngara ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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. The bat briefly perks up and ...