Hunting bats rely on 'bag of chips effect'

Hunting bats rely on 'bag of chips effect'
Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Jan 11, 2015 - When bats hunt in groups at night, they rely on the sounds of their fellow bats to tip them off on the best places to a grab a good meal. Researchers reporting their findings in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on January 8 are calling this behavior the "bag of chips effect." "When you sit in a dark cinema theater and someone opens a bag of chips, everyone in the theater knows that s ... more

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