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

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 Conversation · Apr 29, 2025

Shriek! Slap! Pow! The small bat wins.

NEW YORK: One morning in the Panamanian rainforest, a small fruit bat sized up his competition. The odds did not appear to be in his favor. The winged mammal, a Seba’s short-tailed bat, weighed about half an ounce. But his six opponents, fringe-lipped bats, were twice as heavy and occupying…

Bangkok Post · Apr 14, 2022