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Bats

Chiroptera

The only mammal with true flight, and the hardest group to identify in the field. They leave no tracks: what works is the sonogram of the echolocation — the frequency of maximum energy, the pulse shape and the call rhythm.

375 accounts · 17 families

Cistugidae2 accounts

Craseonycteridae1 account

Emballonuridae15 accounts

Hipposideridae21 accounts

Megadermatidae3 accounts

Miniopteridae7 accounts

Molossidae35 accounts

Mormoopidae6 accounts

Natalidae1 account

Noctilionidae2 accounts

Nycteridae4 accounts

Phyllostomidae60 accounts

Pteropodidae23 accounts

Rhinolophidae40 accounts

Rhinonycteridae1 account

Thyropteridae1 account

Vespertilionidae153 accounts

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