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• Meet our Scientist Rachel Page. She studies frog-eating bats, and other animals, in Panama

  In conservation biology, Meet Our Scientists, Video, zoology / 27 November 2012 / 0 comments

  

  Meet Rachel Page, a Smithsonian scientist in Panama who studies frog-eating bats (fringe-lipped bats), among other topics. Her current research focuses on learning and memory in neotropical bats, combining field studies with laboratory experiments to learn about predator cognition and its effects on the evolution of their prey.

   

• With picky eating, bats avoid poison prey

  In Research Topics, zoology / 18 June 2012 / 0 comments

  

  The loud love calls of tiny túngara frogs (Physalaemus pustulosus) that reverberate through the nighttime jungles of Panama are bold advertisements for a suitable mate. But in singing, the frogs are taking a risk. Somewhere...

   

• Smithsonian bat expert Kristofer Helgen answers common questions about bats

  In Q & A, zoology / 29 October 2010 / 8 comments

  

  To celebrate a cool Halloween creature–bats–we teamed up with the Smithsonian’s Kristofer Helgen, curator of mammals at the National Museum of Natural History. Here, he answers three commonly asked questions about these winged mammals.