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Laryngeally echolocating bats avoid self-deafening (forward masking) by separating pulse and echo either in time using low duty cycle (LDC) echolocation, or in frequency using high duty cycle (HDC) echolocation. HDC echolocators are specialized to detect fluttering targets in cluttered environments. HDC echolocation is found only in the families Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae in the Old World and in the New World mormoopid,  Pteronotus parnellii . Here we report that the hipposiderid  Coelops frithii , ostensibly an HDC bat, consistently uses an LDC echolocation strategy whether roosting, flying, or approaching a fluttering target rotating at 50 to 80 Hz. We recorded the echolocation calls of free-flying  C. frithii  in the field in various situations, including presenting bats with a mechanical fluttering target. The echolocation calls of  C. frithii  consisted of an initial narrowband component (0.5±0.3 ms, 90.6±2.0 kHz) followed immediately by a frequency modulated (FM) sweep (194 to 113 kHz). This species emitted echolocation calls at duty cycles averaging 7.7±2.8% ( n  = 87 sequences).  Coelops frithii  approached fluttering targets more frequently than did LDC bats ( C.frithii , approach frequency  = 40.4%,  n  = 80;  Myotis  spp., approach frequency  = 0%,  n  = 13), and at the same frequency as sympatrically feeding HDC species ( Hipposideros armiger , approach rate  = 53.3%,  n  = 15;  Rhinolophus monoceros , approach rate  = 56.7%,  n  = 97). We propose that the LDC echolocation strategy used by  C. frithii  is derived from HDC ancestors, that this species adjusts the harmonic contents of its echolocation calls, and that it may use both the narrowband component and the FM sweep of echolocations calls to detect fluttering targets.

High Duty Cycle to Low Duty Cycle: Echolocation Behaviour of the Hipposiderid Bat Coelops frithii