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Guide to the: Egyptian Free-Tailed Bat - Tadarida aegyptiaca
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Egyptian Free-Tailed
Bats pack themselves tightly into rock crevices. They are gregarious,
occurring in colonies of dozens, and in certain areas, of hundreds.
They often roost in caves during the day, which have a smell that emanates
from their droppings; they also shelter in attics and in any sort of
building crevice available. Bats are as clean as cats, and regularly
groom themselves. Egyptian free-tailed bats eat only insects, and favour
beetles and other hard-shelled species, which they hunt using echolocation.
While hunting on the wing, the bat emits anything up to 250 little "beeps"
a second at frequencies usually much higher than the highest tones audible
to man. The female of the species give birth to a single offspring,
usually in the warm, wet summer months, and maternity colonies consisting
of females only are sometimes formed.
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