Pallid bats scarf down scorpions like peanuts, writes Christie Wilcox in her Science Sushi blog for Discover. Don’t they notice the stinger? Christie (@NerdyChristie) extracts the answer from a PLOS One paper and the results could teach us about how to manage pain in humans. Want more? Christie has an entire book on Venomous creatures. image: BLM
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