science · 25 August 1999 · 25 years ago
In 1999, the oldest wild bat in Europe recorded to date was a 33-year-old male lesser mouse-eared bat according to a claim published in The Independent newspaper (London). Two Swiss researchers from the University of Lausanne found the bat in the eaves of the church at Fully, in south-west Switzerland. An earlier oldest bat record in the U.S. was a 24-yr-old little brown bat found on 30 Apr 1960. Later, in a journal article received on 20 Jun 2005, a 41-yr-old Brandt's bat found in Siberia was reported.
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