Horse-shoe bat

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Horse-shoe bat

Horse-shoe bat

Horse-shoe bat

Horse-shoe bats (Rhinolopus) are insectivorous bats belonging to the suborder Microchiroptera. They are small to medium in size, with small eyes, comparatively short snout and without claw on second finger. Most have nose leaves and special flaps in front of their large ears, used for navigation or echo-location. The females have a pair of mammary glands and two “false nipples” above and to the side of the genital opening, which newborn bats cling to for a few days after birth.

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