African Giant Free-tailed Bat

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African Giant Free-tailed Bat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Molossidae
Genus: Tadarida
Species: T. ventralis
Binomial name
Tadarida ventralis
(Heuglin, 1861)

The African Giant Free-tailed Bat (Tadarida ventralis) is a species of bat in the Molossidae family. It is found in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly South Africa. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

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