A tricolor nightlight is a small bat. She lives about 14-15 years old. It got its name due to a unique color. The hairs of the wool on the back have 3 colors at once: a brick red tip, a light middle, a dark base. However, in addition to coloring, a tricolor nightlight differs from other types of bats nearby characteristic features.
Description
A tricolor nightlight belongs to the kingdom of animals such as chords and subtype vertebrates. This is a mammal of the screeching detachment. This type of bat applies to the genus of nights. She prefers open landscapes, mainly arid. As a shelter, he chooses caves, attics, grottoes. Representatives of this species easily get along with each other. Often they form mixed colonies with horseshoes.
Like all bats, a tricolor nightlight goes hunting with the onset of twilight. She catches prey right in the air, or on the surface of the foliage. Her diet is quite diverse. It contains insects from 11 detachments and 37 families such as arthropods. Among them there are beetles, biclane, webding, scales. It is interesting to note that some individuals prefer to enjoy spiders.
This type of mammals flies quite low above the ground. Quite often they can be seen flying along forest belts and hedges. They fly slowly. A tricolor nightlight emits lowintensity echolocation signals. Their range is 95-40 kHz. The maximum amplitude is 55 kHz.
Propagate at the beginning or midsummer. Pregnancy lasts about 3 months. The female only has 1 cub.
Appearance
A tricolor nightlight has a peculiar color of the wool. The upper body is covered with hairs of 3 colors: dark, pale and brick red, or reddish-brown. The lower side of the bat has only 2 shades. A minor length of the flowered endings forms a certain ripples in the color of the top.
The body length of representatives of this species is approximately 44-55 mm. The body smoothly passes into the tail. Its length ranges from 38-44 mm. Weighs a tricolor nightlight from 4 to 10 kg. Her teeth are pretty small. The length of the upper row is 6.5 mm.
On the outer edge of the ear there is a deep “clipping”. The length of the hearing organ is 15-17 mm. Also the bat also has palatine folds. There are 7 of them. The wing membrane is connected to the base of the outer finger of the foot. The third metarpal bone is longer than the fourth by 1-2 mm, while it has the same dimensions with the fifth.
Red Book
Representatives of this species are quite vulnerable. They are subjected to indirect negative influence through the impact on the ecosystem and direct destruction. A tricolor nightlight is poorly adapted to harsh environmental conditions, so it needs to be protected.
The bat is listed in the Red Book of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, the Krasnodar Territory, the Republic of Crimea and the Stavropol Territory, the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, the Republic of Adygea. A tricolor nightlight is awarded the I category of a species, which is under threat of disappearance.
Where it lives
The tricolor night spent has a wide habitat: from Central Europe and Mediterranean to the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Middle East. In Eurasia, a flying mouse of this species chooses the foothill areas for its residence, where there are caves.
Such mammals settle mainly in mountain forests at an altitude of 1800 m. above sea level. They also like parktype landscapes. Growing colonies, the number of which exceeds 300 individuals, settled in caves, grottoes or in the attics of abandoned buildings.
