Batman’s not afraid of some little old meat-eating plant. He naps in its death traps.
GIMME SHELTER For a daytime roost, a Hardwicke’s woolly bat (left) can slide partway down inside one species of pitcher plant’s dangling, insect-catching leaves (right). Ulmar Grafe
For a daytime roost, both male and female Hardwicke’s woolly bats wedge themselves partway down the throats of vase-shaped leaves that capture insects for a vining species of carnivorous pitcher plant, says tropical ecologist Ulmar Grafe of University Brunei Darussalam in Gadong.
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