By Susan Milius
Big Mediterranean bats snatch migrating songbirds out of the night sky in spring and fall, according to a new study.
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When researchers proposed that idea in 2001, “there was so much controversy,” says Ana Popa-Lisseanu of the Doñana Biological Station in Seville, Spain. Now, she and her colleagues have cooperated with the idea’s main critic, a conservation biologist at the University of Bern in Switzerland, to settle their argument.