Wood's Slit-faced Bat
Nycteris woodi
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Mammals
Wood's slit-faced bat is a species of slit-faced bat that lives in the dry savanna regions of Southern Africa. Its numbers are declining due to habitat loss from logging and farming, pesticide use, and the decline of baobab trees on which these bats depend for roost sites.
Classification
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Nycteridae
- Genus
- Nycteris