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Cricket Avoids Being Bat Food by Doing Nothing

Jul 22, 2020 · 4 min
0:00-4:44

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The sword-tailed cricket can discern bats’ echolocation signals by only responding to calls of a certain volume—at which point it plummets out of their approach.


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