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n. - Typically having large ears and feeding primarily on insects.

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  • A few other tetrapod-eating bats can be found in other microbat clades, like Vespertilionidae (more on them in next post).
  • At approximately 11cm, they are the biggest microbat in Australia, but are still a third of the size of the fruit bats common to Sydney, and are usually found in North...
  • They’re superficially like megadermatids, and even bigger, with Linnaeus’ false vampire Vampyrum spectrum having a wingspan of about 1 m (making it the largest microbat).
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