May 4, 2021 Predatory bacteria — bacteria that eat other bacteria — use approaches remarkably similar to much larger organisms as they target their prey. In the case of Vampirovibrio, the bacterium attaches to the outside of a prey cell and feeds on its interior cytosol — much as a vampire bat sucks blood from mammals it feeds on. For bacteria in the genus Lysobacter, several bacterial cells act as a group to hunt their prey, just as a wolf pack might target an elk. Image courtesy of Northern Arizona University. (Download Image) Previous Next Predatory bacteria bite their own Anne M Stark, stark8 [at] llnl.gov, 925-422-9799