Scientists find bats can call dibs on their food, warn rival bats to stay away

[Guest Brad Reed]

It turns out we're more like bats that we ever imagined, for just as we can call dibs on the last slice of pizza, bats can call dibs on the bugs they're about to eat. MDConnects reports that biologists at the University of Maryland have discovered that male brown bats can use a special sound known as a "frequency-modulated bout" (FMB) that lets nearby bats know that they've put in a claim on a particular piece of food and thus letting them know to stay away. Apparently this ultrasonic call is produced exclusively by flying male brown bats while foraging as the scientists found female brown bats did not emit any such sounds.

 

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