According to a study recently published in the journal Nature, the greater noctule (Nyctalus lasiopterus) doesn’t only kill its next meal midair—it also dismembers and devours it without landing. One big batIn Europe, bats don’t get any bigger than the greater noctule. “We knew that the greater noctule catches and eats insects in flight, so we assumed it did the same with birds–but we needed to prove it,” he said in a statement. Meanwhile, others in their field doubted the hypothesis, since many bird species weigh as much as half as much as a greater noctule. After capturing a pair of wild noctule bats and attaching the harmless packs, the researchers released them back into the world and waited for them to get hungry.