Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats
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Author: benbreen
Date: 7/1/2026
Article Summary:
A study reveals that a 17th-century painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder depicts a bat species preying on a songbird, a behavior that was only recently confirmed by modern scientific research.