First description and video of a rainbow boa preying on a vampire bat in a cave in Ecuador
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - 09:32
in Biology & Nature
While snakes are well-known enemies to bats, their preying on the winged mammals has hardly been recorded. Furthermore, no bat as big and heavy as the common vampire, has been described being killed and eaten prior to the present study, published in the open access journal Subterranean Biology.