Curiosity killed the bat: Domestic cats as bat predators

By L. Ancillotto, M. Serangeli, D. Russo. 2013

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Bats and Buildings: The Conservation of Synanthropic Bats (2015, background): “Synanthropic bats that fall to the ground or fly close to the ground may be captured and killed by domestic cats (Bruijn 1990; Ancillotto et al. 2013).”
Catastrophic cat predation: A call for predator profiling in wildlife protection programs (2015, background): “, 2008), and specialize on particular prey (Ancillotto et al., 2013; Dickman and Newsome, 2015; Fitzgerald, 2000) that makes them so dangerous to some wildlife populations.”
Individual hunting behaviour and prey specialisation in the house cat Felis catus: Implications for conservation and management (2015, background): “Thirdly, there is some evidence that cats may develop marked individuality in hunting and killing behaviour, targeting such unusual prey as small bats (Ancillotto et al., 2013) and potentially putting rare species at particular risk.”