Moths use acoustic decoys to dodge bat attacks

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Sep 21, 2021, 8:33 am492 ptsHot
In dark skies around the world there unfolds a nightly battle between bats and the nocturnal insects upon which they feast. You'd have thought bats, equipped as they are with echolocation, in which they navigate using sound, would have no trouble gobbling up the apparently clueless insects you see banging…

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