National Geographic has a whole page of miscellaneous videos featuring bats having dinner. I like bats, but perversely preferred this one of assassin bugs turning the tables on them.
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Assassin bug vs bat? Now that’s entertainment! Next up: grasshopper vs rhino.
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Political metaphor:
The bats are a bloodsucking John McCain. Assassin bugs are Sarah Palin.
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PZ, I love you. Really, I do. And I love bats. And squids and such. But could you please, PLEASE stop posting vids that are narrated by this cheesy Casey Kasem guy?
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I now always hit ‘mute’ before watching Nat Geo videos.
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Gross! You’ve gone one bat too far, PZ.
Assassin bugs are the vilest most disgusting insects in the entire section of the spiral galaxy.
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“…like a gasoline tanker truck filing with fuel…”
Funny metaphor, but I have never seen a gasoline tanker truck pull up to a sleeping anything and then puncturing to get fuel.
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boygenius, thanks, I was afraid it was only me.
I can handle the squids, assassin bugs, vampires, and what-have-you, but Mr. Kasem just makes me squirm.
Other than that, thanks PZ, for all your efforts and giving people a place to voice their opinions.
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You are indeed perverse, PZ, to take pleasure in those assassin bugs stalking that cute little baby vampire bat…
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So does it kill it?? It ended just as it was getting good.
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The death of a thousand cuts.
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Neat video, but in situations like this, I can’t help myself: my sympathies are with the mammal. The cute, baby, fuzzy mammal.
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@#5
Assassin bugs are the vilest most disgusting insects in the entire section of the spiral galaxy.
Except maybe Donohue and Robertson etc.