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Of southern African wing-gland bats, woolly bats, and the ones with tubular nostrils (vesper bats part IV)

Of southern African wing-gland bats, woolly bats, and the ones with tubular nostrils (vesper bats part IV)
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Introducing the second largest mammalian family : vesper bats, or vespertilionids

Bats are one of those groups of animals that I've come back to on several separate occasions, yet have never dealt with in satisfactory fashion (that is, comprehensively). Seeing as the group includes over 1110 living species, I hope that this is forgivable. But I have plans, and over the last few weeks a number of coincidental and unrelated events have caused me to do a lot of thinking and writing about the enormous, hugely successful, globally distributed microbat group known as Vespertilionidae.

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