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RE: Cats in New Zealand are hunting endangered bats :(
Interesting, but I guess it shouldn't be surprising. I have read in the past that cats in North America are the biggest threat to many species of birds, so it makes sense that they would hunt bats, too.
I'm more surprised by the fact that the M. robusta hunts on the ground. I wasn't aware that any species of bats do that. Bad news if there are cats around.
Yeah! Despite being lovely, cats are essentially predators. I remember there was a plan in Australia to erradicate them because they were killing billions animals:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/australias-cats-kill-two-billion-animals-annually-180977235/
I didn't know that about the bats either.