Megaderma lyra

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Noun1.Megaderma lyra - large carnivorous Old World bat with very large earsMegaderma lyra - large carnivorous Old World bat with very large ears
big-eared bat
false vampire, false vampire bat - any New or Old World carnivorous bat erroneously thought to suck blood but in fact feeding on insects
genus Megaderma, Megaderma - type genus of the Megadermatidae
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The greater false vampire bat Megaderma lyra is an Indomalayan bat species.
DESCRIPTION OF THE FIRST RECORD OF THE INDIAN FALSE VAMPIRE BAT (Megaderma lyra) E. Geoffroy 1810 (RHINOPOMATIDAE: CHIROPTERA) CAPTURED FROM NORTHWESTERN PAKISTAN
Body contacts among the social groups in the False Vampire bat, Megaderma lyra, suggests individualized relationships.
Bats may recognize voices of friends they hang out with
Examples include one megachiropteran (Indian false vampire bat, Megaderma lyra (Subbaraj and Balasingh 1996)), andthree microchiropterans (Jamaican fruit-eating bat, Artibeus jamaicensis, (Morrison 1978)); pond bat, Myotis dasycneme (Voute et al.
Lunar phobia in the greater fishing bat Noctilio leporinus (Chiroptera: Noctilionidae)
The false vampire bat, or Megaderma lyra, uses distinctive social calls that sound like songs when recorded and played back at a slower speed, to attract female mates while the sac-winged bat, Saccopteryx bilineata, uses songs to mark out its territory.
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