Possibly to protect themselves against bats that might prey on them, fireflies emit strong ultrasonic sounds that they themselves can’t hear as a sort of musical armor, recent research shows. Researchers from Tel Aviv University and the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, grew unexpectedly out of research tracking bats’ echolocation. “We were wandering around a tropical forest with microphones […]
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