The Moth Darwin Predicted Can Jam Bats' Sonar To Protect Itself From Becoming Dinner
Xanthopan praedicta , also known as Darwin ’s hawkmoth , is a favorite among entomologists for its extraordinary proboscis ( mouthpart ) , and among biologists in general for being predicted by Charles Darwin . Now it turns out the sphingid is even more remarkable than anyone realized , have the capacity to impede the sonar of the bats that predate on it . Advantageous as this is , it traps the moth in two unvarying races for survival of the fittest ....