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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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 ...

The scientists discovered that the Caucasian parsley frogs — so named because the bright green flecks on their skin resemble parsley — showed an obvious preference for living in caves with bat ...

Scientists found that the fringe-lipped bat, known to eavesdrop on frog and toad mating calls to find its prey, learns to distinguish between palatable and unpalatable frogs and toads through ...

Researcher May Dixon discovered that frog-eating bats could recognize ringtones indicating a food reward up to four years later Vanessa Crooks Researchers used speakers to play ringtones to the bats ...

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 ...

Wild fringe-lipped bats spend just one-tenth of the night in flight, but they can precisely snatch a calling frog and nab prey that rivals their own size Joshua Rapp Learn | Science Correspondent ...

A new international study led by researchers from Aarhus University and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) reveals that small bats can be just as efficient predators as lions—and often ...

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 ...

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.