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Old World Horseshore bats
-Old world temperate and tropical regions
- Horseshoe facial ornamentation |
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Old World Leaf-Nosed Bats
-Live in arid desert enviornments
- insectivorous
- small to medium sized |
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False vampire Bats
-E Africa, India, SE Asia, Australia
- large eyes, large ears, priminent nose-leaf
- wide uropatagium but no tail
- primarily insectivorous but will also eat small vertebrates |
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-Very long tails
-Small to medium sized bats
-Insectivorous
-Roost in caves and cliffs
-Torpid during cold weather, no hibernation |
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Bumblebee bat
-Smallest species of bat and mammal
-Roost in small caves
-Pig like snout |
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Sac-winged bats
-Sac in propatagium (near elbow)for pheremones
- Tropical and sub-tropical regions |
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Sac-winged bats
-Sac in propatagium (near elbow)for pheremones
- Tropical and sub-tropical regions |
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Old World Leaf-Nosed Bats
Ecologically the most varied and diverse family within the order chiroptera |
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Mustache or nacked-backed bats
-Tropical to Central and South America
-Semiarid to tropical forest
-Insectivorous
Leaf-like projection from lips
In some species the wing membrane join over the animal's back, making it appear hairless |
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| Noctilionidae (Bull-dog or fishing bats) |
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Bull-dog or fishing bats
-Hindlimbs with large recurved claws |
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Smoky, or thumbless, bats
-Reduced and functionless thumbs
-Broad, funnel-shaped ears
- Central and SOuth America |
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Disk-winged bats
-Sucker disks on thumb and feet, tail does not extend beyond uropatagium |
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Old world sucker-footed bat
-Found only in Madagascar
-suction cups only appear on wrist and ankles that allow them to roost inside rolled leaves |
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New Zealand short-tailed bats
-spendmuch of the time on the ground
- can fold their wings into a leathery membrane when not in use |
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Common bats
-most widely distributed
-Most diverse in temperate regions
-small eyes, nose-leaf usually absent, large ears, well developed tragus
-most insectivorous |
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Free tailed bats
-large eys meet on fore head and point forward, tragus but no nose leaf
-tail extends well beyond uropotagium
-don't hibernate |
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Funnel-eared bats
- have a natalid organ |
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