Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 63(2) 2020

Issue:

VOL 63(2) 2020

DOI:

10.3409/azc.63.06

Keywords:

Bats, anthropogenic shelters, roosting ecology, neotropics

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First record on the roosting behaviour of Montane myotis Myotis oxyotus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)

• Zuzanna WIKAR
• Marta SZURLEJ

Abstract:

Montane myotis is an Andean bat species whose ecology and roosting behavior is poorly known. Three females were discovered and caught roosting in a crevice in a home’s roof located in Sibundoy Valley (SW Colombia). This is the first roost of Montane myotis ever recorded and evidence that this species, usually caught in forests, may use anthropogenic shelters.