Overcoming Sensory Uncertainty: Factors Affecting Foraging Decisions in Frog-Eating Bats

摘要: Predators forage in complex environments where they must make fast, high-stakes decisions. Foraging decisions are influenced by biases sensory perception and cognitive processing, learned remembered information, environmental factors such as prey availability. In this chapter, we discuss some of the that influence decision-making a neotropical predatory bat species, fringe-lipped , Trachops cirrhosus. This hunts frogs insects eavesdropping on prey-produced sounds, but its foraging also other sources including echoacoustic gustatory cues . T. cirrhosus quickly learns novel associations between cue quality, can use social information acquired from conspecifics, forms long-term memories sounds. Research cognition bat, all conducted with wild or wild-caught temporarily housed individuals, has made species one most well-understood, non-model systems for predator decision-making. Yet there is still much remains unknown about how why these predators do.