Talk about an in-flight meal. For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: scim.ag/3LsoK4f @NewsfromScience

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@ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience So are rats going to be rabies vectors now?

@ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience @ScienceMagazine This remarkable predator-prey role reversal challenges our assumptions about rodent capabilities. Similar to how shrews evolved echolocation independently of bats, these rats demonstrate convergent evolution of aerial hunting strategies.

@ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience the ground rat must have been super jealous of the flying rats

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Nature's menu just got more interesting and acrobatic! "In-flight meal" takes on a whole new meaning! Nature's ultimate role reversal! When the hunted becomes the hunter! 🦇➡️🐀 Rats hunting flying bats shows how species push boundaries when opportunity meets necessity. These rodents are literally reaching new heights in the food chain. Incredible behavioral adaptation! The predator-prey dynamic just got a serious upgrade. 🦇🐀 Evolution never stops surprising us! This mid-air hunting technique is a masterclass in evolutionary problem-solving. Nature doesn't follow our scripts and that's why it's fascinating. Nature never stops innovating!

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@ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience Well there's something I didn't know

@ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience That's still insane to me that some bats are that tiny.

@ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience Adapting to their environment, filling an open ecological niche. A monster is born…

@ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience Bats contain many diseases that’s why not very many predators hunt them. What would cause a rat to adapt to this ?? Can someone explain this.

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@ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience Wait, so is 🐀 the Covid intermediate host they’ve been looking for?

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@ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience "Survival of the fittest." May be not too good for nature.

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@ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience Blimey - that's a new one!!!

@ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience Rats need to go

@ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience The mice must be hungry

@ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience Ridiculous. Bats eat bugs and mind their own business but plague carrying rats have a better reputation. And now they're EATING bats?

@ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience we're about to get a disease so bad it'll make covid look like the cold.

@ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience Wow, thats nuts.....

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@ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience we would not know the virus come from the rat or the bat.