Pocketed Freetail Bat (Noun)
Meaning
Small brown bat of California and northern Mexico.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The Tafin Cave in California is a roosting site for the pocketed free-tailed bat during the winter months.
- Scientists have been studying the population dynamics of the pocketed free-tailed bat in the southwestern United States.
- This unique species of free-tailed bat is easily distinguishable by the distinctive gusset in the skin of its tail membrane, or uropatagium, giving the species its common name.
- A small colony of pocketed free-tailed bats was discovered in the attic of an old brick building in downtown San Diego.
- Only a few small caves in northern Mexico provide a suitable habitat for the endangered pocketed free-tailed bat.