Wait, what? A RAT caught and ate a BAT? And there's video! What does it portend?
toggle caption Gloza-Rausch et al, Global Ecology and Conservation
Bats carry lots of viruses – including variants of the coronavirus that sparked the pandemic. But since bats don't often attack humans, the question is: What's the risk of these viruses being passed on to humans.
A new study inadvertently discovered a possible route of transmission . Researchers were filming bats to learn how they communicate when they swarm – and during a routine watch of the live footage they saw something that shocked them: A rat grabbed a bat and bit it.
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