EveryBat

Posted every bat species on Earth, now going through them all again! Bat facts & pics. Mostly accurate, random bat order

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Anoura caudifer or the tailed tailless bat (that is really its name) has an unusually high metabolic rate, & must spend at least 4 hours a night feeding.

(Photo Arthur Tahara)

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Peterson's long-fingered bat (Miniopterus petersoni) from southeastern Madagascar.

(Photo Goodman et al. 2008)

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Seba's short-tailed bat (Carollia perspicillata) is a common bat species from Latin America.

(Photo Marco Mello)

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The dwarf dog-faced bat (Molossops temminckii) is native to South America.

(Photos fauna paraguay)

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The big-eared brown bat (Histiotus macrotus) is native to Argentina and Chile.

(Photo Pablo Caceres Contreras)

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The dusky pipistrelle (Pipistrellus hesperidus) is a small bat from Africa.

(Photo B. Stanley)

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The Duke of Abruzzi's free-tailed bat (Chaerephon aloysiisabaudiae) from Africa.

(Photo Jakob Fahr)

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The cyclops roundleaf bat, or cyclops leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros cyclops) can be found in the forests of equatorial Africa.

(Photo KD Dijkstra)

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The ashy-gray tube-nosed bat (Murina cineracea) from Asia.

(Photo NM Furey)

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The black-bellied fruit bat (Melonycteris melanops) from Papua New Guinea.

(Credit Joseph Smit)

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Dekeyser's nectar bat (Lonchophylla dekeyseri) is an endangered species from Brazil & Bolivia.

(Photo Hernanifi)

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A white-shouldered short-faced bat (Ametrida centurio) from Suriname.

(Photo @burtonlim)

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A female Eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis).

(Photo @joelsartore)

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The Azores noctule (Nyctalus azoreum) is a vulnerable species found only in the Azores archipelago. It is the only bat species in the world that hunts insects principally by day.

(Photos Filipe Lopes)

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The African long-fingered bat (Miniopterus africanus) is a type of vesper bat, found only in the tropical montane forests of Kenya.

(Photo João Pedro Silva)

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Khajuria's leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros durgadasi) from central India. It is vulnerable & threatened by habitat loss.

(Photo Kaur et al. 2014)

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The Admiralty flying fox (Pteropus admiralitatum) is a fruit bat from Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

(Photo Lars Petersson)

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Steppe whiskered bat (Myotis aurascens).

(Photo Levente B.)

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Percival's trident bat (Cloeotis percivali).

(Photos Merlin Tuttle, Rachael Cooboh)

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Melck's house bat (Neoromicia melckorum) from southern Africa.

(Photo Ernest C. J. Seamark)