If he added one of the vine’s dish-shaped leaves, the search time halved – the bats found the feeder in just 12 seconds. Simon thinks that the leafy beacons benefit both the vine and the bat.

In this episode of The Cartoon Lounge, we turn over (and otherwise mishandle) leaves that are not only old but dead. Makes sense. That’s what makes autumn autumn. Bob Mankoff was the cartoon ...