It is not impossible for toads to swallow bats. Yufani Olaya, a Ranger in Peru's amotape Mountains National Park, captured a picture of a toad eating a bat and sent it to the biologist Phil Torres.
Perhaps this is the first time that Torres has captured a bat in the sea.
The sea toad, also known as the American giant toad or sugarcane toad, is native to South America and weighs up to 2 kg. (this article is edited and arranged by sihai.com, please indicate the source of reprint https://love.4hw.com.cn/animal/32766.html For more information, please pay attention to the world's wonders
They are known as' opportunistic 'predators and have become a scourge in many other places of origin, such as Australia.
Even so, it's hard for Torres to imagine that this aggressive amphibian can prey on bats that move flexibly in the air, so he contacted Olaya for more details.
Olaya told Torres, 'the bat came out of nowhere and flew straight into the toad's mouth, which seemed to be sitting there with his mouth wide open. '
Torres said: 'the bat flew too close to the ground and unprepared, apparently flying directly into the toad's open waiting mouth. (this article is edited and arranged by sihai.com. Please indicate the source for reprint https://love.4hw.com.cn/animal/32766.html For more information, please pay attention to the world's wonders
So, did the sea toad swallow its wings in the end? According to Olaya, it didn't. The toad finally gave up his dinner and vomited out the bat.
Olaya thought the bat was dead at first, but then it slowly recovered and finally flew away. It was amazing.
Don Wilson, honorary curator of the mammalian branch of the Smithsonian National Museum of natural history, said it was a species of the cynomodidae, which often perched on roofs and flew high and fast.
Therefore, the bat was probably about to fly out of the nest or back to the nest. When he was close to the ground, he was waiting by the toad. The sea toad would swallow almost everything that fell into his mouth. (this article is edited and arranged by sihai.com, please indicate the source of reprint https://love.4hw.com.cn/animal/32766.html For more information, please pay attention to the world's wonders