22/11/2023
Long nosed bat 🦇
Long nosed bats live in groups. 🦇🦇🦇 The colonies are usually between five and ten individuals, and very rarely exceed forty. The bats are nocturnal 🌙, sleeping during the day in an unusual formation 😴: they line up, one after another, on a branch or wooden beam 🪵, nose to tail, in a straight row.
A colony of long nosed bats usually has a regular feeding area, typically a small patch of water.💧 Here the bats catch insects (in the form of midges [including chironomids], mosquitoes 🦟, beetles, and caddisflies) using echolocation. They have no specific breeding season, forming stable year-round harems. One young is born per female. Both sexes disperse after weaning at around 2–4 months. 🌿
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