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pipistrelle
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pipistrelle: see bat bat, winged mammal of the order Chiroptera, which includes 900–1,000 species classified in about 200 genera and 17 families. Bats range in size from a wingspread of over 5 ft (150 cm) to a wingspread of less than 2 in. (5 cm).
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pipistrelle
any of numerous small brownish insectivorous bats of the genus Pipistrellus, occurring in most parts of the world: family Vespertilionidae


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Byline: ANI Washington, September 26 (ANI): A team of scientists has found that a group of Great Tits in a cave in Hungary has acquired a new habit of eating hibernating common pipistrelle bats under harsh conditions of snow cover.
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With rare and threatened species including lesser horseshoe, greater horseshoe, serotine and pipistrelle bats using buildings for summer and winter roosts, the bats' survival is increasingly dependent on the way traditional buildings are looked after.
 
 
 
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