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Tiny recording backpacks reveal bats' surprising hunting strategy

  • March 2, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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Tiny recording backpacks reveal bats' surprising hunting strategy
Deep into the Panamanian night, the forest hums with sound. Chirping insects form a steady backdrop, rain softly trickles from leaves. Somewhere above a stream, frogs call into the darkness. But I am not there to see this scene. It's already passed. What I hold now is a small, mud-smeared biologger, no larger than a Lego brick. This tag recorded the sounds of the previous night.

Originally published at Phys.org

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