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

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EveryBat@EveryBat
30 Jun 2023
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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EveryBat@EveryBat
29 Jun 2023
Peterson's long-fingered bat (Miniopterus petersoni) from southeastern Madagascar. (Photo Goodman et al. 2008)
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EveryBat@EveryBat
28 Jun 2023
Seba's short-tailed bat (Carollia perspicillata) is a common bat species from Latin America. (Photo Marco Mello)
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EveryBat@EveryBat
27 Jun 2023
The dwarf dog-faced bat (Molossops temminckii) is native to South America. (Photos fauna paraguay)
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EveryBat@EveryBat
26 Jun 2023
The big-eared brown bat (Histiotus macrotus) is native to Argentina and Chile. (Photo Pablo Caceres Contreras)
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EveryBat@EveryBat
25 Jun 2023
The dusky pipistrelle (Pipistrellus hesperidus) is a small bat from Africa. (Photo B. Stanley)
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EveryBat@EveryBat
24 Jun 2023
The Duke of Abruzzi's free-tailed bat (Chaerephon aloysiisabaudiae) from Africa. (Photo Jakob Fahr)
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EveryBat@EveryBat
23 Jun 2023
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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EveryBat@EveryBat
22 Jun 2023
The ashy-gray tube-nosed bat (Murina cineracea) from Asia. (Photo NM Furey)
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EveryBat@EveryBat
21 Jun 2023
The black-bellied fruit bat (Melonycteris melanops) from Papua New Guinea. (Credit Joseph Smit)
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EveryBat@EveryBat
20 Jun 2023
Dekeyser's nectar bat (Lonchophylla dekeyseri) is an endangered species from Brazil & Bolivia. (Photo Hernanifi)
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EveryBat@EveryBat
19 Jun 2023
A white-shouldered short-faced bat (Ametrida centurio) from Suriname. (Photo @burtonlim)
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EveryBat@EveryBat
18 Jun 2023
A female Eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis). (Photo @joelsartore)
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EveryBat@EveryBat
17 Jun 2023
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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EveryBat@EveryBat
16 Jun 2023
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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EveryBat@EveryBat
15 Jun 2023
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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EveryBat@EveryBat
14 Jun 2023
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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EveryBat@EveryBat
13 Jun 2023
Steppe whiskered bat (Myotis aurascens). (Photo Levente B.)
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EveryBat@EveryBat
12 Jun 2023
Percival's trident bat (Cloeotis percivali). (Photos Merlin Tuttle, Rachael Cooboh)
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EveryBat@EveryBat
11 Jun 2023
Melck's house bat (Neoromicia melckorum) from southern Africa. (Photo Ernest C. J. Seamark)
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