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Common Name: Bladfords Bat

Scientific Name: Hesperoptenus blanfordi

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum:  Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Chiroptera

Family: Vespertilionidae

Genius: Hesperoptenus

Species: H. blanfordi 

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The Hesperoptenus blanfordi common name is Blanford’s bat. It is a very rare bat.  It likes to live in a variety of forests like “subtropical/tropical dry, subtropical/moist, and subterranean/non-aquatic.”-(Said by The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species) The

“Countries it is found in is Brune, Darussalam, Cambobodie, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia,

Myanmar, and Thailand.” 

Its species is present of the area of the island of Borneo. In Indonesia. It likes to eat fruit in its current area, fruit bats tend to eat their fruit in a special way. The bat will usually “crush the fruit open and eat the parts they like Then they spit the seeds and pulp on the ground.”

“Fruit bats also have teeth so small it could bite a human and the person wouldn’t feel it.”-(Wikipedia) It is “also found in river ecosystems.”- (IUCN Red List of Threatened Species) It has been “listed as least concern among bats.”-(IUCN Red List of Threatened Species) It is “listed as least concerned species because of its ability to survive in many environments.”-(IUCN Red List of Threatened Species)

The bat's size is small. Its population is stable as well, it’s neither shrinking nor growing. Its fur color is brown, and black with small ears along with small and beady eyes.

 

Author: Bobby T

Published: 06/2012

 

Source:
Wikispecies, Wikipedia,
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species,
Specieslist.com,
Animal Deiversity,
EOL,
 thewebsiteofeverything,

 

 

 

 

 

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