Bats Mimic Other Predators To Find Food All Year Round
22 March 2018, 10:47 pm EDT By Rubi Valdez Tech Times
Researchers from the University of Toronto experiment on a variety of bat species to determine how they adopt food hunting techniques.
Krista Patriquin and Rachel Page, the lead researchers of the study, which was published in Science Advances, said that their purpose is to investigate if bats are able to learn food searching from other species (heterospecifics) as fast as they do from their own (conspecifics).
The first round of observations was conducted in fringe-lipped bats (Trachops cirrhosus) by using a computer-generated tone that signal food rewards as they were exposed to a different species of bats. The same type of adaptation technique was applied to another set of bats: the White-throated, round-eared bat (Lophostoma silvicolum).
"[The fringe-lipped bats] took [sic] longer to recognize this artificially generated sound as a signal for food, presumably because it was not a sound that was familiar to them," Page said.
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