Little fruit bats and short-tailed bats
Order : Chiroptera
Family : Phyllostomidae
Subfamily : Carolliinae
Facts about the subfamily Carolliinae, the little fruit bats and short-tailed bats
lesser short-tailed bats are now
Short-tailed bats are unique in that they are extremely agile on the ground.
Short-tailed bats are very acrobatic in flight.
The largest mainland population of short-tailed bats is in the Rangataua Forest on the slopes of Mount Ruapehu (see Forest & Bird, May 1998).
tuberculate) Short-tailed Bats, are the most terrestrial of all the 950 or so bat species in the world.
February 3, 2005 Tararua Ranges, New Zealand – In an attempt at a world first twenty short-tailed bats are to be moved by the New Zealand Department of Conservation from the (Full text)
Long-tailed and Short-tailed bats are New Zealand’s only native land based mammals. (Wiki)
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