Animal Species:Bristle-nosed Freetail Bat
There are few records of the Bristle-nosed Freetail Bat.
Identification
The Bristle-nosed Freetail Bat has thick bristles on its snout.
Habitat
The Bristle-nosed Freetail Bat's habitat includes open woodland, acacia shrublands and hummock grasslands. These bats probably roost in trees.
Feeding and Diet
The Bristle-nosed Freetail Bat's diet is not known, but probably includes insects.
Economic/social impacts
The Bristle-nosed Freetail Bat is vulnerable to loss of tree hollows and loss of feeding habitat by extensive vegetation clearing and land degradation by agricultural activities.
Classification
- Genus:
- Mormopterus
- Order:
- Chiroptera
- Subclass:
- Eutheria
- Subphylum:
- Vertebrata
- Phylum:
- Chordata
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
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