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Cloeotis percivali |
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Cloeotis percivali australis |
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Short-eared Trident Bat |
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Length: 7 cm; wingspan: 15 cm; forearm: 5 cm; weight: 5 g. Pelage is soft and silky, slate grey above and yellowish-grey or greyish-white below. Face is whitish-yellow. Wings are dark. There are elaborate noseleaves around the nostrils. A three-pronged process is at the top of these noseleaves. Ears are very small, rounded and nearly hidden by hair. Wings are small and rounded. |
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Dry forests, savannah, caves and mine-shafts. |
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Lives in groups. Roosts in caves or mines. Slow flier. |
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Insects. |
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Females give birth to one young. |
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Warning :
This database was established according to official pieces of work and with the help of famous scientists. However, there might be some errors.
The vernacular names were collected in the field and in the colonial literature from the first part of the 20th century. The monks who established the first dictionaries were not necessarily informed naturalists. Therefore, errors must have been committed.
We invite everyone who could help us to improve this working tool to contact us in order to correct us and share her/his knowledge with us.
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