First record of Molossops temminckii (Chiroptera: Molossidae) and use of billboard posts as artificial shelters in El Palmar National Park, Entre Ríos, Argentina
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Natural protected areas, bats, distribution, habitat, mixed colonyAbstract
Bats use several types of shelters, both natural and artificial, which allow them resting, reproduction, breeding, among other fundamental activities. Some shelters can be used by two or more species, even from different bat families. In this paper, we report the first record of Molossops temminckii for El Palmar National Park (PNEP, Entre Ríos, Argentina) and the use of billboard posts as artificial shelters. Two posts were recorded being used as shelters by the species and in one of them we found a mixed colony of M. temminckii and Myotis sp. (Myotis cf. nigricans). The use of posts as artificial shelters may be related to the ease of occupying previously constructed holes, even in natural environments such as protected areas with a large availability of natural shelters. This work also allowed increasing the known number of bat species in the PNEP to six species.
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