Pipistrellus pygmaeus, Psow river valley, Nizhnyaya Shilovka, Sochi district, Krasnodarskiy Kray, Russia CC BY-SA 3.0 Evgeniy Yakhontov (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mückenfledermaus#/media/Datei:Pipistrellus_pygmaeus01.jpg)

Soprano pipistrelle

Description

The soprano pipistrelle is a sibling of the common pipistrelle.

It differs from the common pipistrelle in that it is slightly smaller and thus represents the smallest Central European bat species. Also, its echolocation sounds are not at the usual 45 kHz, but have a final frequency of about 55 kHz.


The text is a translation of an excerpt from Wikipedia (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mückenfledermaus). On wikipedia the text is available under a „Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike“ licence. Status: 13 August 2021