Uploaded November 2014 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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The echolocation of a Mexican free-tailed bat is jammed by playback of a prerecorded jamming call (the high-pitched whirring sound), causing the bat to miss a tethered insect prey in the field. Audio and video are slowed 20 times.

Read the full story here: discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/bats-send-jamming-signals-to-steal-rivals-meals

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Credit: Aaron Corcoran
Aaron J. Corcoran, William E. Conner. 07 Nov 2014. Bats jamming bats: Food competition through sonar interference. Science. Vol. 346, Issue 6210, pp. 745-747. DOI: 10.1126/science.1259512

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