Least ConcernMexican Free-tailed Bat
Tadarida brasiliensis
5 countries17 parks
Species group · Mammals
WAnimals has 29 species of bat, spread across 11 families (Craseonycteridae, Emballonuridae, Megadermatidae, Miniopteridae, Molossidae, Mormoopidae, Noctilionidae, Phyllostomidae, Pteropodidae, Rhinolophidae, Vespertilionidae).
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
3 species in this group are in a threatened category according to the IUCN.
Recorded in 156 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
It can fly at up to 160 km/h, the fastest level flight documented in any mammal.
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Its colonies can reach up to 20 million individuals, as at Bracken Cave in Texas.
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It leaves its pups in communal crèches while the mother forages.
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Its ears are nearly half the length of its body, and it folds them away at rest.
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It creates genuine graveyards of prey: it carries each moth back to its perch to eat and the discarded wings pile up underneath.
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Its echolocation is so faint that it barely reaches five metres, which lets it hunt without being detected by moths with ultrasonic receptors.
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Genetic studies revealed that it is in fact a complex of distinct cryptic species.
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It lives in karst caves of Mediterranean influence, and its numbers are falling sharply.
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Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 29.
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