A bottle teat made of a soft elastic material, comprising: a hollow suction nipple, a circumferential mounting edge for fixation to the bottle opening of a drinking bottle, a hollow transition zone between the mounting edge and the suction nipple, and two drinking slots extending from the outer side to the inner side of the suction nipple in an end region of the suction nipple, which are aligned in parallel to each other and whose distance from each other decreases from the outer side towards the inner side of the suction nipple.