Frog-hunting bats have ‘cocktail party effect’ workaround

In noisy environment, hunters shift from listening for croaks to using echolocation

fringe-lipped bat

NIGHT STALKER  A fringe-lipped bat, which hunts frogs by listening for their nighttime calls, has ways of compensating when unnatural human noises get in the way.

 

Alex Lang 

An experiment with fake frogs shows how certain bats adjust their hunting technique to compensate for unnatural noises.