**5. Bats can defend themselves**

That bats could be dangerous if consumed whole is borne out by the report of the death of an Oriental Bay Owl *Phodilus badius* picked up dead disclosing the cause to be the wing bone of the bat protruding through the stomach [12]. In Poland, on its turn, a western barbastelle bat *Barbastella barbastellus* has been observed to attack an owl [13]. And in the same country, there is an interesting observation on a Tawny Owl trying to catch *Nyctalus noctula* in the air but the bat "hid in the predator's shadow" by flying very close behind it and waiting until the owl gave up hunting. Finally, the bat flew away safely after the owl ceased searching for the lost prey [14].
