What on earth?! (25)

In September 2019, while walking through the grounds of the now defunct Kingdom hotel at Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, we observed a monitor lizard eating what looked like a fruit-eating bat.

Unfortunately, we did not see if the bat was caught while alive or the monitor was feeding on a dead bat found on the ground of the hotel. The monitor consumed the entire bat.

A Google search indicated that this is not an unusual event and that both snakes and lizards are known to predate on bats all over the world.

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  1. Fantastic observation! If the snake caught it flying low… it would be strange enough πŸ˜„ One of my cat used to eat bats, but a cat can jump a little better than a snake πŸ˜…

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