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[stephengillie]

Maybe they keep bats too busy to eat a more nutritious prey animal, and keep the population from expanding though malnourishment? Similar to the diet of a panda bear, though they unfortunately have no higher-caloric alternative.

[allendoerfer → stephengillie]

I think mammals are smart enough to eat the food with the most nutritions per effort.

[vkrm → allendoerfer]

Pandas and Koalas have extremely poor diets in terms of nutrition. It's likely there are other examples as well.

[red75prime → vkrm]

Looks like evolutionary dead end.