{"id":196351,"date":"2025-12-06T15:17:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T15:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=196351"},"modified":"2025-12-06T15:17:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T15:17:27","slug":"after-25-years-scientists-solve-the-bird-eating-bat-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=196351","title":{"rendered":"After 25 years, scientists solve the bird-eating bat mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After decades of mystery, scientists have finally proven that Europe\u2019s largest bat, the greater noctule, hunts and eats small songbirds mid-air\u2014more than a kilometer above ground. Using tiny biologgers strapped to bats, researchers recorded astonishing dives and mid-flight chewing sounds confirming bird predation long suspected but never observed&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2025\/11\/251101000404.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After decades of mystery, scientists have finally proven that Europe\u2019s largest bat, the greater noctule,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196351-after-25-years-scientists-solve-the-bird-eating-bat-mystery.webp",1920,1080,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196351-after-25-years-scientists-solve-the-bird-eating-bat-mystery-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196351-after-25-years-scientists-solve-the-bird-eating-bat-mystery-300x169.webp",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196351-after-25-years-scientists-solve-the-bird-eating-bat-mystery-768x432.webp",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196351-after-25-years-scientists-solve-the-bird-eating-bat-mystery-1024x576.webp",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196351-after-25-years-scientists-solve-the-bird-eating-bat-mystery-1536x864.webp",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196351-after-25-years-scientists-solve-the-bird-eating-bat-mystery.webp",1920,1080,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196351-after-25-years-scientists-solve-the-bird-eating-bat-mystery-1024x576.webp",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196351-after-25-years-scientists-solve-the-bird-eating-bat-mystery-825x575.webp",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196351-after-25-years-scientists-solve-the-bird-eating-bat-mystery-590x410.webp",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">Europe<\/a>","tag_info":"Europe","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/196352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}