From Science Magazine.

Talk about an in-flight meal.

Poised on a humanmade landing platform at the entrance of a cave in northern Germany, an invasive brown rat lunges at a bat and yanks it out of the air, after which it quickly becomes dinner. The discovery—documented in infrared and reported this month in Global Ecology and Conservation—marks the first time researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky.

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FOOTAGE CREDIT: GLOZA-RAUSCH ET AL., GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION 2025

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