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Aeorestes cinereus (hoary bat)

Synonyms: Lasiurus cinereus; Lasiurus cinereus cinereus; Vespertilio cinereus; Vespertilio linereus
Language: French; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus) is a species of bat in the vesper bat family, Vespertilionidae. It occurs throughout most of North America and much of South America, with disjunct populations in the Galápagos Islands and Hawaii. The bat normally roosts alone on trees, hidden in the foliage, but on occasion has been seen in caves with other bats. It prefers woodland, mainly coniferous forests, but hunts over open areas or lakes. It hunts alone and its main food source is moths.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
20
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.87
EDGE Score: 2.06
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  24 grams
Birth Weight [1]  6 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Aerial [2]  100 %
Gestation [1]  56 days
Hibernates [3]  Yes
Litter Size [1]  2
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  14 years
Migration [3]  Intercontinental
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [4]  3.15 inches (8 cm)
Speed [5]  13.243 MPH (5.92 m/s)
Weaning [1]  34 days
Wing Span [6]  16 inches (.4 m)

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Longibucca lasiura[7]
Plagiorchis vespertilionis[7]
Prosthodendrium macnabi <Unverified Name>[7]
Prosthodendrium silvai <Unverified Name>[7]
Urotrema scabridum[7]

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 5Lasiurus cinereus, Karl A. Shump, Jr. and Ann U. Shump, Mammalian Species No. 185, pp. 1-5 (1982)
♦ 6Allometry of Bat Wings and Legs and Comparison with Bird Wings, Ulla M. Norberg, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 1981 292, 359-398
♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0