“…Regarding the studies on the bats' digestive tube, they stand out for their histology (Makanya et al 2001, Gadelha-Alves et al 2008, Strobel et al 2015, Zhang et al 2015 and microbiology (Ingala et al 2018, Sens Junior et al 2018. However, Barry-Jr (1976) already emphasized the little research about the different segments of this system, including the intestine to wild mammals, a real fact still today, once that the studies on ENS are widely disseminated to rodents (Karaosmanoglu et al 1996, Tan et al 2008, Luesma et al 2013, Grundmann et al 2015, Kulkarni et al 2017 and more recently to primates (Noorian et al 2011), but in terms of other groups of wild mammals, not employed in experimental models, the absence of data is notorious.…”