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Janson Jones,
http://floridensis.com.

an injured Bobcat in Cathy & Tim's work shed. With no reason to ever expect such a thing, Cathy was probably less than a foot from this one before it growled at her. Tammy at Keeping it Wild Rescue and Emily from Talon & Claws Rescue & Rehabilitation were able to come by and help out by drugging/sedating the animal and then got it into a kennel for transport to Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation in Kendalia. The poor thing had a coyote snare trap tightly wound around its waist and one of its legs and looked like it had been that way for awhile as the wounds from the trap seemed to be infected.

Update from Cathy: So the update is this was some kind of projectile, a hooked/pointed end with a wire attached; it had skewered the shoulder blade, gone through the rib cage, and then wrapped around and trapped a paw.

Photos/xrays added from rehabber.

B. asper eating what is most likely Trachops cirrhosus.

Note the Streblid flies still moving on the dead bat.

Check out my paper on this observation here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342792286_When_the_hunter_becomes_the_hunted_foraging_bat_attacked_by_pit_viper_at_frog_chorus

Observation of the same species of bat: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/52429697

Observation of the Streblid flies: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/52430393

El cocodrilo de América Central es conocido como el cocodrilo de Morelet o el "cocodrilo mexicano." Es de tamaño pequeño en comparación con algunos otros cocodrilos. Los machos pueden llegar a ser más grandes que las hembras, lo que se conoce como dimorfismo sexual. Los promedios de cocodrilos adultos son de alrededor de 3 metros de longitud, con un máximo de 4,3 metros hasta el momento confirmado y es similar a los cocodrilos americanos y cubanos en apariencia.