When it comes to unexpected horror stories, humans may never beat nature at its scariest. In Germany, rats reportedly like to intercept bats near hibernation sites, killing and feasting on the local bat population.
Understandably, the researchers, reporting their findings in a recent Global Ecology and Conservation paper, hoped this was an “extreme scenario—a small rat population subsisting exclusively on bats.” But their investigation revealed frighteningly systematic ways in which brown rats, Rattus norvegicus, prey on the bat species Myotis daubentonii and Myotis nattereri.
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