Brown Long-Eared Bat
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| Brown Long-Eared Bat | |||
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| ウサギコウモリ | |||
| Character Data | |||
| AKA | Common long-eared bat
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| Romaji | Usagikoumori
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| Debut | Kemono Friends (2015 Game) | ||
| Animal Data | |||
| Scientific Name | Plecotus auritus
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| Distribution | Eurasia
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| Diet | Insectivore
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| Avg. Lifespan | 4.5 years
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| Read More | Brown long-eared bat
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| Conservation | 
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| Brown Long-Eared Bat | Pavilion | KF3 | Nexon Game | KemoV | Gallery |
Brown Long-Eared Bat is a Bat Friend that appeared in the original Kemono Friends mobile game. Brown Long-Eared Bat has also debuted as a member of KemoV, the Kemono Friends virtual Youtuber group. She has been implemented in Kemono Friends 3 shortly after.
Appearance
The current design of Brown Long-Eared Bat has pale grey, shoulder-length hair with a dark brown bang. The massive animal ears on top of the head resembles those of the original animal. Her eyes are bright orange and she has sharp fangs. Typical to bat friends, she has a pair of bat wings at the back.
She is in a beige sweater with a breast pocket and short puff sleeves, a dark navy pleaded skirt with an orange stripe along the edge. There is fur underskirt underneath. She also has a yellow scarf typical to sailor uniform sticking out under the fur collar round the neck. She wears long pink fingerless gloves and pink thigh-highs as well as a pair of dark Mary Jane with X-strap.
The old design has black hair cut straight around the head at about jaw-level which turns slightly beige. Her skin is pale and her eyes are red. Her top is composed of a brown shirt with short puff sleeves, a sailor-style collar with a yellow bow, full-length brown gloves, a long black and yellow cape, and a brown fluffy scarf around her neck.
She wears a brown short circular skirt with pressed-in ridges, full-length black tights and brown loafers. As the other Friends, She also has her ears and wings that belongs to her species.
Series Appearances
| Media | Role | |
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| 2015 | Nexon Game | ↪ Minor character, playable |
| 2018 | Kemono Friends Pavilion | ↪ Observable character |
| 2019 | Kemono Friends 3 | ↪ Minor character, playable |
In Real Life
The Brown Long-Eared Bat is a small Eurasia bat. The ears are 3.3-3.9 cm in length which gave it his name. The brown long-eared bat can be found throughout Europe, with the exception of Greece, southern Italy and southern Spain. It is relatively common and widespread in the UK with the exception of exposed islands with little woodland such as Orkney, Shetland and the Outer Hebrides.
The bat hunts mostly moths. It also feeds on beetles, flies, earwigs and spiders. Sometimes they land on the ground to catch insects or to shift them into a controllable position in the mouth, and they are even able to take insects from lighted windows. Small prey is eaten in flight, but larger insects are taken to a ‘perch’. Regularly used perches, which are frequently inside porches or barns, can be recognised by the accumulations of discarded insect remains, particularly wings of moths such as yellow underwings.
Brown long-eared bat’s echolocation calls range from 25 - 50kHz and peak at 35kHz. These bats are known as ‘whispering bats’ because their echolocation sounds are very quiet. They have particularly sensitive low frequency hearing and often locate prey from the sounds made by the insect’s own movements. Depending on situations, the bat sometimes hunts preys by sight and hearing instead of sonar, especially during the day.
Despite being common and widespread long-eared bats face substantial threats. Their habit of flying close to the ground makes them vulnerable to attack from nocturnal predators.
Summer roosts are usually located in older buildings, barns, churches and trees. Long-eared bats generally form small and quiet colonies of about 20 animals - often the first a householder knows about them is when a visit to the loft reveals a cluster of tiny faces peering down from a corner of the rafters. Winter roosts tend to be found in caves, tunnels, mines, icehouses and occasionally even trees and buildings. Their foraging habitat is open deciduous and coniferous woodland, parkland and orchards. Unlike the males of other species, a significant proportion of male brown long-eared bats may be present in the maternity roosts.
Brown Long-Eared bat's population has declined in Britain due to changing land use, including modern intensive agricultural practices, and the conversion of barns which have resulted in the loss of suitable feeding and roosting habitats. It is particularly susceptible to pesticides, especially their use in roofs where it often roosts on exposed timbers.
References
- "Plecotus auritus". Bat Conservation Trust.
- "Plecotus auritus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.