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.

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.

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.