Here is a stunt video was done by a Brazilian wildlife campaigner. He puts two live vampire bats in his mouth to bring attention to the destruction of the rainforest. The man who did the stunt is found to be Arteval Duarte, an activist from Jacunda, Northern Brazil.

Arteval was seen stuffing the flying mammals into his mouth before slowly letting them crawl out and fly. Though this stunt was done in March this year, the video has now gone viral on social media.

The destruction of Brazil’s Amazon forest has jumped by 16% in 2015 from the previous year. According to the Satellite reports, for the 12 months through the end of July showed 2,251 square miles of pristine forests were cleared in the Brazilian Amazon. It also showed an area bigger than Germany has been razed across the entire Amazon since 1988.

Vampire bats tend to live in colonies and can usually be found in dark places like caves and hollow trees. Vampire bats tend to live in colonies and can usually be found in dark places like caves and hollow trees.