Do Bats Eat Anoles? Yes!
Saturday, March 16, 2013 9:08
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Fringe-lipped bat chows on a frog. Apparently, they take lizards, too. Photo from Smithsonian Science.
A quick answer to my question posed a few days ago. Some bats do, indeed, eat anoles. In particular, the fringe-lipped bat Trachops cirrhosus has been reported to do so a number of times, I now know thanks to avid anolologist and zoological polymath Anthony Herrel. Try googling “anole” and “trachops.” One hit with several references comes from the entry in Mammalian Species for Trachops, although only one paper specifically identifies anoles (A. lemurinus being the victim), as opposed to “lizards” or geckos.
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