 Recent research has demonstrated this bat's ability to find motionless food within clutter.Echolocating bats discriminate between background and prey based on glints or Doppler shifts in the echo induced by the (wing-)movements of the prey, but "M. microtis" can detect completely motionless prey.The species shares both the leaf-nose formation and the trait of sound emission through the nostrils with all Phyllostomidae, but its behavior is understood to be unique