Study reveals that wild bats can remember sounds for years

Jul 18, 2022

New Delhi, July 18 (ANI): When we learn a skill, like riding a bike or looking both ways before crossing the street, we rarely need to learn it again. The majority of research on learning and long-term memory in wild animals focuses on a handful number of species. The findings of the study were published in the Current Biology, and researchers working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) shared the first report of long-term memory in frog-eating bats (Trachops cirrhosus). The bats' ability to learn and retain information means that when they are hunting frogs, their main prey, they don't have to continuously relearn which frog calls indicate that a frog is good to eat, poisonous, or too big to carry.