- Country reported: Kenya
The elephant-dung bat is a cryptid bat reported from the Marsabit Forest and Mount Kulal in Kenya. It is a small bat, with a wingspan of possibly only 5 inches, and has silver, brownish-grey fur with a paler undercarriage. It roosts on the ground in piles of dried elephant dung. Terence Adamson briefly came across this bat in the 1950s in two different locations in Kenya.[1]
Karl Shuker has suggested this cryptid may represent a southeastern range of the horn-skinned bat (Eptesicus floweri) of Mali and South Sudan, which roosts in acacia roots.[2]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Eberhart, George (2002) Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology
- ↑ Shuker, Karl "A Belfry of Crypto-Bats" Fortean Studies 1 (1994)