{
  "id": 2360745,
  "title": "Crickets evade bats via olfaction beyond acoustic cues",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/crickets-evade-bats-via-olfaction-beyond-acoustic-cues",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-21T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "eLife",
    "slug": "elife",
    "url": "https://elifesciences.org/articles/110936"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The evolutionary arms race between insectivorous bats and their insect prey is a classic paradigm of acoustic predation and evasion, with insects having evolved sophisticated auditory countermeasures. Both bats and insects also rely heavily on olfaction for key behaviors, such as social communication. Moreover, predator-derived odors are well established as risk cues in many other predator–prey…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}