Great horse-shoe bat is restricted to
forested areas of both wet and dry zone lowlands. However a specimen from
Madamahanwara (1077m a.s.l ) was also collected ( Bats of the Indian Subcontinent – P.j.j. Bates and
D.L. Harrison, 1997). It spends the day time hanging by one foot, with
their wings wrapped around them in a hollow tree or a small cave. Great
horse-shoe Bat lives solitary, in pairs or as small parties of up to three individuals.
It emerges in the late evening from its diurnal roost and flies low over the
ground among low bushes and along jungle paths in seeking of its prey which
consists of beetles, termites and other flying insects. Race sobrinus is
endemic to Sri Lanka
This is the first time that I have seen a bat so close.
ReplyDeleteThis is only one of small insectivorous bat we have in Sri lanka. we have around 26 of them and today I also added a post of another such small bat. You can have a look at one more by visiting following link which contain all bats I have added to the blog so far - http://biodiversityofsrilanka.blogspot.com/search/label/Bats
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