Leather-winged bat

Description

Its chirping calls, which remind us of birds, can be heard especially in autumn during the mating season. It has a maximum body size of 6.4 cm with a wingspan of 27 to 33 cm and a weight of 12 to 23 g. It got its name from its short-haired, two-coloured back fur. It got its name from its short-haired, dense bicoloured dorsal fur. It is reddish to dark brown and silvery white at the tips of the fur. The belly is also white to greyish. The ears, wings and face are blackish brown. Their wings are narrow in relation to the body and the last caudal vertebra protrudes freely from the uropatagium. The ears are short, broad and roundish.

A characteristic of the leather-winged bat is the presence of four teats in the female. No other European species has this feature.

Habitat

The leather-winged bat prefers four types of landscape, namely wooded mountains, steppes and farmland, the shore regions of lakes and, in Europe, especially the vicinity of cities.

The text is a translation of an excerpt from Wikipedia (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zweifarbfledermaus). On wikipedia the text is available under a „Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike“ licence. Status: 09 August 2021