We predicted
the average
number of
WBP directly
predated by
T. plicata.
Leelapaibul et al.
(2005) assessed
the diet of this bat in
Khao Chong Pran
in Thailand over one year.
This largest colony
of two million
individuals was our reference.
We estimated the
percent mass of WBP in the bat diet
from its relative frequency
occurrence
(for details see the Supplementary information).
Then the average
number of directly predated WBP was derived from
the known mass of adult WBP (Matsumura et al., 2008),
the proportion
of winged
female WBP
and bat
feeding rates .