Part of the site houses over 400 lesser horseshoe bats.

It is used as a roost site by Greater Horseshoe bats.

Horseshoe bats give a peeping sound at a frequency depending on their species.

One small roost of lesser horseshoe bats is known.

It is the largest of the European horseshoe bats and is thus easily distinguished from other species.

It is recorded as regularly holding over 300 Lesser Horseshoe bats.

Cattle fields with marginal hedgerows provide the perfect habitat for horseshoe bats.

Lesser horseshoe bats are named for their fleshy nose-leaf structures.

The horseshoe bats bear a striking resemblance to the creatures in the movie "Gremlins."

It has been known to roost in caves with other horseshoe bats, hanging free on the cave roof.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-like virus in Chinese horseshoe bats.

Around us flitted long-winged and greater horseshoe bats.

The stable block is also used by a few lesser horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus hipposideros).

All horseshoe bats have leaf-like, horseshoe-shaped protuberances on their noses.

The site is used by both Greater and Lesser Horseshoe Bats.

The latter is most pronounced in the horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus spp.)

The outbuildings are an important roosting site for Greater Horseshoe Bats.

Another curious trick of horseshoe bats concerns movements of their outer ear flaps.

Horseshoe bats (Rhinolophidae) are a family of bats.

The reward is a main cavern full of sleeping fruit bats and roundleaf horseshoe bats.

Young greater horseshoe bats open their eyes at about 4 days, are able to fly after three weeks and become independent at 7-8 weeks, during August.

The Gorge's many caves are home to colonies of Greater and Lesser horseshoe bats.

Today the tunnel is inhabited by a colony of about 120 lesser horseshoe bats, but otherwise disused and inaccessible.

Because of entry restrictions, the cave has become an important roosting site for Greater Horseshoe Bats.

A somewhat analogous system has been reported in horseshoe bats, in which echolocation call frequency appears to be a magic trait.

Rhinolophus ziama is a species of bat in the Rhinolophidae family.

This behavior appears to have evolved independently in several species of the Rhinolophidae and Mormoopidae families.

Bourret's horseshoe bat is a unique example of extreme noseleaf morphology among Rhinolophidae.

Nevertheless, it is most closely related to Rhinolophidae within the suborder Pteropodiformes (or Yinpterochiroptera).

Family Rhinolophidae (Horseshoe bats)

Taxonomy of the Horseshoe bats of the World (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae).

I. Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae."

While it has often been seen as a subfamily, Hipposiderinae, of the family Rhinolophidae, it is now more generally classified as its own family.

Horseshoe bats are closely related to the family Hipposideridae, which is often included within Rhinolophidae; however, it is now considered a separate family.

In addition to the sole living genus, Rhinolophus, the family Rhinolophidae contains one extinct genus, Palaeonycteris.

Family Rhinolophidae: Old World horseshoe and leaf-nosed bats (Old World)

The six families are: Pteropodidae, Emballonuridae, Hipposideridae, Rhinolophidae, Vespertilionidae and Molossidae.

The Maendeleo Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus maendeleo) is a recently discovered species of bats in the Rhinolophidae family.

Taxonomy of Rhinolophus yunanensis Dobson, 1872 (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) with a description of a new species from Thailand.

Bats of the families Rhinolophidae, Hipposideridae, and some species within Mormoopidae employ the DSC to modulate the echo frequency.

The Yangochiroptera is a proposed suborder of Chiroptera that includes most of the microbat families, except the Rhinopomatidae, Rhinolophidae and the Megadermatidae.

The Thai horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus siamensis), sometimes called the Thai leaf-nosed bat, is a species of bat from the family Rhinolophidae.

Rhinolophus affinis, the intermediate horseshoe bat, is a bat species of the Rhinolophidae family that is very widespread throughout much of South Asia, southern and central China and Southeast Asia.

Species within these families include those of the genus Rhinolophus, such as Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (the greater horseshoe bat), in the Rhinolophidae family, and those of the genus Pteronotus, in the Mormoopidae family.

The new suborder Yinpterochiroptera includes the Pteropodidae or megabat family, as well as the Rhinolophidae, Hipposideridae, Craseonycteridae, Megadermatidae, and Rhinopomatidae families The new suborder Yangochiroptera includes all the remaining families of bats (all of which use laryngeal echolocation).