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around the world. The
earliest fossil records are from the Eocene. The
emballonurids include some of the
smallest of all bats, and
range from 3.5 to 10 cm...
- from
Africa in as many as five dispersals,
starting in the Eocene.
Emballonurids may have also
reached South America from
Africa about 30 Ma ago, based...
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signified active feeding. This was the
first recorded phenomenon of an
emballonurid bat
being pre**** on by an invertebrate, and the
first do****ented proof...
- (pteropodids)
Microbats (microchiropterans) Sac-winged or sheath-tailed bats (
emballonurids)
Rhinopomatoid bats Mouse-tailed bats (rhinopomatids)
Bumblebee bat...
- Yangochiroptera, the
others being Noctilionoidea and Vespertilionoidea.
Emballonurids are also
known as sheath-tailed bats and sac-winged bats: the latter...
- The
Arnhem sheath-tailed bat,
species (Taphozous kapalgensis) is an
emballonurid bat
found at the Top End of Australia. The
species is also
referred to...
-
derived from
convergent evolution. More recently, a
relationship with
emballonurid bats has been proposed,
possibly as a
basal member descended from the...
- be
analogous to that of wing sacs in
other emballonurids. When breeding, the wing sacs of
other emballonurids become enlarged to
attract females. The ****...
- PMID 34748674. S2CID 243861841. Rosina, V.; Pickford, M. (2022). "The new
small emballonurid (Emballonuridae, Chiroptera, Mammalia) from the
Miocene of Africa: its...
- 0.55 in).
Females tend to be
somewhat larger than males. As with all
emballonurid bats, short-eared bats use a type of
echolocation call that consists...
