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Some bat species have secondarily evolved a gleaning strategy that relies on passive acoustic cues to detect and capture prey on vegetation. Here, we tested the hypothesis that such a gleaning specialist, the fringe-lipped bat, Trachops cirrhosus, must use stereotyped aerial-hunting echolocation phases, including a buzz when opportunistically capturing aerial prey. Using data from sound-recording tags on 8 individuals, we reject this hypothesis by showing that fringe-lipped bats can detect and intercept aerial prey by echolocation but do so with modest biosonar adjustments and without producing a high-resolution buzz. 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