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 ...

Fringe-lipped bats, famous for 'overhearing' frogs and toads attempting to attract mates, evaluate which type of frog or toad makes an excellent meal and which needs to be handled with care only ...

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 ...

Fringe-lipped bats eat frogs and toads, distinguishing between palatable and unpalatable species by listening to the amphibians’ croaks. Logan James at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in ...

Most bats use echolocation to navigate and hunt, but some use their ears for another trick: eavesdropping. Hunt like a bat! How baby bats learn to eavesdrop on their next meal There are over 1400 ...

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.

(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 ...