Every so often, mother nature allows for a bit of fair play and turn about.
Here's a photo of a fringe-lipped bat (Trachops cirrhosus) dining on a tungara frog in Panama (not an uncommon occurrence). The bat looks overwhelmed by the meal awaiting it. The frog looks put out.
Photo source: National Geographic
Not to be out done, the amphibians even the score. Large green tree frogs (Litoria cerulea) like to lurk outside the lairs of little bent-wing bats (Miniopterus australis) and nab one for dinner.
Photo credit: D. Bruce Means
Though I would never suggest that there is a natural law of parity or equity in the wild kingdom, I think my kids can learn a good lesson from this, perhaps in a Brothers Grimm-style dark fable. A children's book about bats eating frogs and frogs eating bats is in order. I'm sure they'll be charmed.
Sep 30, 2008
Equity in the Wild Kingdom
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5 comments:
Bat: Om nom nom nom.
Frog: Oh no you don't! OM Nom nom nom!
It's a fight neither can win... Only winner is the mosquite population.
This is like a self-cooking Halloween recipe: Bat-stuffed Frog...and vice versa. Ok, TWO self-cooking Halloween recipes.
turducken anyone?
I just found this blog - really enjoying browsing the entries!
Below is a related link to a photo I took a while ago; it also shows a little reversal of the standard who-eats-what of the animal world.
Bug eating frog
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