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by Veronika Meduna

Few people will have seen New Zealand’s thumb-sized native bats – the country’s only native land mammals. In pre-human times, they darted about the forests in their millions, but today they are reduced to a few scattered groups. We are only now beginning to learn more about these tiny creatures of the night.

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Main image: Short-tailed bat

Short-tailed bat


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