Social hunting strategies are already well documented in many animal species when prey is distributed in an unpredictable way across the landscape. In a new research paper, Manuel Roeleke and his team from the University of Potsdam and the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) have now demonstrated for the first time that animals—in this case, the common noctule bat—join together and form a mobile sensory network in order to increase their chances of finding their prey. The analyses published today in the scientific journal PNAS show that predators can adjust to variable environmental conditions through flexible foraging strategies by networking with conspecifics.