A fringe-lipped bat, Trachops cirrhosus, approaches a Fitzinger's robber frog, Craugastor fitzingeri, in Panama. This species of bat eavesdrops on the mating calls that male frogs produce to attract ...

Researcher May Dixon discovered that frog-eating bats could recognize ringtones indicating a food reward up to four years later Vanessa Crooks Researchers used speakers to play ringtones to the bats ...

Frog-eating bats trained by researchers to associate a phone ringtone with a tasty treat were able to remember what they learned for up to four years in the wild, new research has found. Frog-eating ...

Scientists studying memory and learning in frog-eating bats have made a surprising discovery, demonstrating that they can recognize ringtones tied to food rewards up to four years later. This behavior ...

Bats have longer memories than you might think. The fringe-lipped bat (Trachops cirrhosus) feeds on insects and frogs, which it finds by following the sound of their mating calls. These bats have ...

Long-term memory allows not only people to acquire skills that rarely have to be relearned, such as riding a bicycle, but certain bats may also have that capacity. Biologist M. May Dixon of the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sometimes love hurts - a lot. Just ask the tungara frog, a tiny native of Central and South America. The loud, low mating call made by male tungara frogs in search of a love ...

Biologists attached tiny recording devices that looked like mini backpacks to bats. What they found revealed a surprising ...

A fringe-lipped bat, Trachops cirrhosus, responds to the calls of the túngara frog, Engystomops pustulosus, one of its preferred prey species. First, the bat hears the call of a single male túngara ...

There are certain skills that once we acquire them, we rarely have to relearn them, like riding a bike or looking both ways before crossing a street. Most studies on learning and long-term memory in ...

A fringe-lipped bat, Trachops cirrhosus, approaches a Fitzinger's robber frog, Craugastor fitzingeri, in Panama. This species of bat eavesdrops on the mating calls that male frogs produce to attract ...