Friday, 16 November 2018

Moths survive bat predation through acoustic camouflage fur



Date:  November 6, 2018
Source:  Acoustical Society of America
Moths are a mainstay food source for bats, which use echolocation (biological sonar) to hunt their prey. Scientists such as Thomas Neil, from the University of Bristol in the U.K., are studying how moths have evolved passive defenses over millions of years to resist their primary predators.

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