Lesser mouse-eared bat

Body length 62-70 mm, weight 16-26 g., large sized. The bat’s basal length is 19-21 mm and upper tooth-rows length is 8-9 mm. The bat has 38 teeth.

The bat lives in the Iberian Peninsula, South and Central Europe, South Africa, the Caucasus and middle Asia. The bats line in the mountains and lowlands in Hungary.

Habitat: These bats live in churches less frequented attics, sometimes in eaves in summer. The colonies have several thousand bats.

The bat’s biology. Food: The bats hunt larger moths. The bats eat earthworms in captivity. Breeding: The females give birth to a single young in a year. Lactation is about 6 weeks. The bats live 10-15 years long.

Activity: The bats fly to hunt after sunset hut the younger animals fly back before dawn.

In Hungary it is protected by law since 1901. Theoretical nature conservation value 10000 HUF.

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