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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

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The fringed-lipped bat, Trachops cirrhosus learns the signals that identify good prey species, like the green katydid shown here, from other fringed-lipped bats and from another bat species, the white-throated, round-eared bat, Lophostoma silvicolum.

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Merlin Tuttle <a target="_blank"href="merlintuttle.org">merlintuttle.org</a>

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