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This special issue is organized into three major parts according to the organisms studied: frogs, mammals (excluding bats), and bats.

In the following, we summarize the core messages conveyed by the authors of each of the individual contributions and place their papers in a broader context of the neuroethology of auditory systems and of the work of Al Feng.

Frogs

In “Are frog calls relatively difficult to locate by mammalian predators?,” Jones and Ratnam (2023) suggest that there are several features of frog calls that reduce their localizability by mammalian predators.

These features include using highly periodic vocalizations, narrowband calls, short-pulsed calls and often calling in dense choruses using various means for controlling synchrony, maintaining chorus tenure, and abruptly switching off calling, all of which serve to confound localization by predators.

They illustrate these strategies with c