{"id":7634,"date":"2025-10-10T11:45:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T08:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/?p=7634"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:45:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T08:45:37","slug":"how-europes-largest-bat-catches-and-eats-birds-mid-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/linkki\/7634","title":{"rendered":"<svg class=\"svg-icon svg-icon-link\" aria-labelledby=\"title-69d7eded579ff\" role=\"img\"><title id=\"title-69d7eded579ff\">Link<\/title> <use href=\"#link\" xlink:href=\"#link\"><\/use> <\/svg>7634"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-basic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-10-europe-largest-birds-mid-air.html\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"How Europe\u2019s largest bat catches and eats birds mid-air\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 150px;\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/10\/mystery-solved-how-eur-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-150x999 size-150x999\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/10\/mystery-solved-how-eur-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/10\/mystery-solved-how-eur-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/10\/mystery-solved-how-eur-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/10\/mystery-solved-how-eur-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/10\/mystery-solved-how-eur-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/10\/mystery-solved-how-eur-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/10\/mystery-solved-how-eur-1600x1200.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/10\/mystery-solved-how-eur-2000x1500.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-title\">How Europe\u2019s largest bat catches and eats birds mid-air<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-summary\">The bats kill the birds by biting them, then bite off their wings\u2014probably to reduce weight and drag. The researchers believe that the bats then stretch the membrane between their hind legs forward like a pouch and eat the bird mid-flight.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14097],"tags":[32226,32896,32897,28603,32898,32894,32895,14118],"class_list":["post-7634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-in-english","tag-aarhus-university","tag-carlos-ibanez","tag-donana-biological-station","tag-ecology","tag-elena-tena","tag-laura-stidsholt","tag-leibniz-izw","tag-science","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7636,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7634\/revisions\/7636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}