Monday 6 December 2021

The long tailed bats

                                                               The Long tailed bats


The long tailed bats are olny two land mammal in New Zealand and they are both bats long tailed bats.

The Maori name of long tailed bats are pekapeka.

 New Zealand’s bats have bodies the size of your thumb (5–6 centimetres from nose to tail), and their wingspan is nearly 30 centimetres Also nobody knows  for sure how long the long tailed  bats  live for. 

long - tailed bats have chocolate-brown fur, short ears, and a long tail completely enclosed within a thin membrane attached to its legs.

 They are more common than lesser short-tailed bats, but are rarely seen.

 They are active both at dusk and into the night, and eat only flying insects.

 

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