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A SHORT time back, about 6 o'clock in the evening, just as it was getting dark, hearing a squeaking noise below my veranda, I got up to look, and saw a most amusing sight, viz. a fight between a frog and a bat. The latter was evidently getting the worst of it, but at last succeeded in getting away for a time from its opponent; the frog again attacked it, but this time he was glad to cry “quits,” as the bat turned on him and beat him off, afterwards managing to hide somewhere so that we could not find it; the frog, however, was sorely bitten about the nose, and was in a sad plight. I do not know how the bat could have been on the ground, but it had probably fallen from its nest during the day, and was waiting for the evening, when the frog espied and attacked it with the before-mentioned result.
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EVANS, E. A Pugnacious Frog. Nature 31, 55 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/031055a0
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