Northern Cave Bat
Introduction
Northern Cave Bats roost in caves and disused mines with other microbat species.
Habitat
Northern Cave Bats live in the rock country of the Kimberley region of Western Australia and northern Northern Territory. Tropical vegetation types including monsoon and paperbark forests, tall open forest, savanna, spinifex hill woodland, mixed shrubland and deciduous vine thickets.
They roost in caves and disused mines with other microbat species. Small cracks and crevices, near entrances of caves and mines. Colony sizes range from single animals to 45, usually eight to twelve. Also found in boulder piles, road culverts and Fairy Martin (bird) nests.
Distribution
Feeding and diet
Northern Cave Bats feed on moths, bugs and caddis flies.
Conservation status
Northern Cave Bats are vulnerable to disturbance from human visitors to cave roosts, destruction of caves by mining, and loss of feeding habitat by clearing and land degradation from agriculture.
