Evolution: How Bat Biosonar Bests Prey Camouflage.

Curr Biol

Chair of Zoology, Technical University Munich, Liesel-Beckmann-Strasse 4, 85354 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany; Department Biology II, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Großhaderner Strasse 2, 82152 Martinsried, Germany. Electronic address:

Published: August 2019

The detection of silent, motionless prey sitting directly on leaves has long been considered a task impossible to solve with echolocation alone. Now, a new study has identified a strategy that lets bats do just that - with the help of the leaf.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.002DOI Listing

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