Hunting can also get stopped
A landing could be part of a bat's strategy.
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Not all food demand requires continuous flight. The Bat Conservation Trust describes the large ferrature bat from a habitual landing to catch passing insects. Larger prey can be taken to a feeding landing. The same record refers to capture in flight and occasionally on the ground.
Among the insects consumed, it lists beetles, nocturnal butterflies, tipules and tricopters. The latter group connects history to insects whose larvae can build shelters in the water: the adult form participates in other eating relationships.
The source describes the species in the British context. In Cabeceiras there is a documentary reference to Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, presented in another reading; this does not show that these behaviors have been observed here. The comparison helps to separate two questions: where was the animal mentioned and how can it live?
Source and context
Bat Conservation Trust — Greater horseshoe bat, behavior and feeding
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