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Three species—the Lord Howe long-eared bat, Christmas Island pipistrelle, and Sturdee's pipistrelle—have been made extinct since 1500 CE. The 275 extant species of Vespertilioninae are divided between 45 genera , ranging in size from 1 to 33 species.
The grey long-eared bat (Plecotus austriacus) is a fairly large European bat. It has distinctive ears, long and with a distinctive fold. It hunts above woodland, often by day, and mostly for moths. In captivity, it has also been recorded to eat small lizards. [2]
They are all insectivorous and eat a variety of insects and spiders, [1] but some bats with long toes which trawl for insects on top of the water, such as the long-fingered bat Daubenton's bat, Maluku myotis, Rickett's big-footed bat, and pond bat, may sometimes supplement their diet with small fish from still waters.
Desert long-eared bat, Otonycteris hemprichii; Turkestani long-eared bat, Otonycteris leucophaea; Genus Plecotus – lump-nosed bats Brown long-eared bat, Plecotus auritus; Grey long-eared bat, Plecotus austriacus; Ethiopian long-eared bat, Plecotus balensis; Christie's long-eared bat, Plecotus christii; Gaisler's long-eared bat, Plecotus gaisleri
The Biden administration declared the northern long-eared bat endangered on Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to save a species driven to the brink of extinction by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease.
As of February 2011, at least three states had an official bat. Hawai'i named the Hawaiian hoary bat as the official state land mammal in April 2015. [2] The general assembly of North Carolina considered a bill in 2007 that would have made Rafinesque's big-eared bat as its state bat.
Grey long-eared bat: Plecotus austriacus: 102 million [370] = LC [371] Hairy big-eared bat: Micronycteris hirsuta: 100 million [372] = LC [373] Biology portal ...
Federal officials Tuesday proposed designating the Northern long-eared bat, once common but ravaged by a deadly fungus, as an endangered species. The population has plummeted since colonies ...