The moth's ultrasonic hearing range, which was described Tuesday in the journal Biology Letters, could help the creature hear the sonar communication of their predators, bats, Windmill said.

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Bat versus moth The team hypothesizes that the moth's ultrasonic hearing could help it evade their predators in many environments. The moth "would probably be the food for many different bats ...

Corcoran explains. Scientists knew that most species of tiger moths that emitted ultrasonic clicking sounds did so to signal their toxicity to bats—similar to how, for example, poison dart frogs ...