Bats observed catching and eating birds mid-flight, a phenomenon possibly depicted by a 17th-century painter

Scientists have observed Europe's largest bat species catching and consuming birds in mid-air, a behavior that a Flemish painter appears to have documented centuries earlier in his artwork.

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Bats can catch and eat birds mid-flight. A painter may have known that 400 years before scientists

Europe’s biggest bat is capable of an impressively athletic feat: snatching birds out of the air and eating them, midflight — something a Flemish painter seems to have noticed hundreds of years before scientists.

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