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Prey exploits the auditory illusions of eavesdropping predators

10.4231/TYHF-XJ20

Claire T Hemingway , Henry D Legett ORCID logo , Ximena E Bernal ORCID logo

03/04/2021

We show that male tree frogs reduce their attractiveness to eavesdropping enemies (bats and midges) by overlapping their calls at near-perfect synchrony with the calls of neighboring conspecifics taking advantage of an auditory illusion.

animal communication biological sciences communication network eavesdroppers illusion sensory exploitation synchrony

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