The bat that cracked the frog code - Smart, Keenan; Block, Betty; Attenborough, David, 1926- (London : BBC Enterprises, 1982)
This is a detective story, unfolding in the depths of the Panamanian jungle, where two scientists tease out the mysteries behind the night-time operation of the fringed-lipped bat. This air-bourne hunter cruises effortlessly through the dense foliage, somehow able to pinpoint its prey of a croaking frog through a tick wall of night sounds. Not only the predators locate and pounce upon the unfortunate frogs in the blckness of a tropical night- they are even able to distinguish between the edible and poisonous one. With the aid of radio transmitters, sound recording and photography the scientists explore the abilities of this eavesdropping bat that cracked the frog code and also discover countermeasures taken by frogs in an attemp to escape their highly sophisticated predators.
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Keywords: Bats -- Panama; Frogs -- Panama