Foraging Flexibility in the Frog-Eating Bat, Trachops Cirrhosus
Friday, November 10, 2006 4:00 p.m. Rachel A. Page and Professor Michael J. Ryan Section of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin http://www.biosci.utexas.edu/IB/Default.htm The fringe-lipped bat, Trachops cirrhosus, feeds on frogs and uses frog advertisement calls to detect, identify, and localize its prey. Given acoustic cues alone, T. cirrhosus is able to discriminate…