Kill Them With Cuteness: The Adorable Thing Bats Do to Catch Prey (IMAGE)

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Kill Them With Cuteness: The Adorable Thing Bats Do to Catch Prey

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Echolocating bats are champions of auditory scene analysis, exploiting active sensing processes to perceive the world in high spatial and temporal resolution. The bat adapts in tandem its outgoing sonar vocalizations with movements of the external auditory system to increase sensory acuity.

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Melville J. Wohlgemuth

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