By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – All’s fair in love and war – and also in mid-air bug hunting, if you’re a bat. Scientists studying a common species of these flying mammals found that the bats, while competing for the juicy insects they call dinner, make noises that “jam” other bats that are using their sonar-like echolocation abilities to zero in on prey. Echolocation – bouncing sound waves off objects – is how bats navigate in the dark while hunting, enabling them to find and catch elusive insects zipping through the nighttime air. …
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