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Frog-eating bats remember an annoying ringtone — for years

Bats trained to respond to an artificial sound can recall it up to four years later.
A fringe-lipped bat attacking a frog.

The fringe-lipped bat hunts frogs and insects at night, which might explain its prodigious memory for sounds. Credit: Christian Ziegler/Nature Picture Library

Bats have longer memories than you might think.

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Nature 606, 842 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01712-0

References

  1. Dixon, M. M., Jones, P. L., Ryan, M. J., Carter, G. G. & Page, R. A. Curr. Biol. 32, R557–R558 (2022).

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