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Renaissance painting captured bat eating a bird 400 years before scientists documented the behavior

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Bethany Brookshire

5d ago· 4 min readenNews

Summary

A Renaissance painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder from 1611 depicts a greater noctule bat snatching a bird mid-air, a behavior that scientists only documented and confirmed in the wild in recent years. The article explores how the artist's keen observation of nature captured a predatory behavior that predated scientific documentation by over 400 years, highlighting the intersection of art and natural history.

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Twitter / XRenaissance painting captured bat eating a bird 400 years before scientists documented the behaviorsciencenews.org

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Last fall, scientists documented the greater noctule bat snatching songbirds out of the air for a snack.
But while this was a finding relatively new to science, a Renaissance artist knew enough to include the behavior in one of his paintings.
Air, a 1611 allegorical painting by the Flemish artist Jan Brueghel the Elder, depicts...
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Renaissance painter Jan Brueghel the Elder painted a bat eating a bird — 400 years before scientists would document the behavior.

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