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Pipistrellus nanus |
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Pipistrellus nanus nanus |
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Banana Bat |
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Length: 7,5 cm; wingspan: 19 cm; forearm: 3,2 cm; weight: 4 g. Pelage varies from light to dark brown above and is paler, often grey, below. Wing membranes are dark brown. Head is small. Ears are triangular and pointed. The first digits of the feet and wings have sucker pads to grip smooth surfaces. |
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Humid forests. |
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Lives in colonies in roofs or rolled-up terminal leaves of banana, strelitzia and plantain trees. Slow, erratic and acrobatic flier.
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Insects. |
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Females give birth to one or two 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.
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