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To investigate the predation success, we modeled a group of bats hunting a number of collectively behaving prey. The modeling results demonstrated the benefit of localized grouping of prey in avoiding predation by bats. In the topics regarding active sensing and collision avoidance, we studied individual behavior in swarms as bats could potentially benefit from information sharing while suffering from frequency jamming, i.e., bats having difficulty in distinguishing between self and peers's information. We conducted field experiments in a cave and found that individual bat increased biosonar output as swarm size increased. The experimental finding indicated that individual bat acquired more sensory information in larger swarms even though there could be frequency jamming risk. In a simulation wherein we modeled bats flying through a tunnel, we showed the increasing collision risk in larger swarms for bats either sharing information or flying independently. 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