The Mongalla free-tailed bat (Mops demonstrator) is a species of bat in the family Molossidae found in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Sudan and Uganda. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna and seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland in the tropics and subtropics. The British mammalogist Oldfield Thomas first described it in 1903 as Nyctinomus demonstrator from an adult male collected at Mongalla, in what is now South Sudan. It was moved to Tadarida in 1914, and in 1983 Patricia Freeman raised Mops to a full genus and placed the species there. It is also called the Mongalla mops bat, has no recognised subspecies, and is most closely related to the white-bellied free-tailed bat. The IUCN lists it as least concern, though its population is thought to be decreasing, threatened by the cutting of the large trees it roosts in and by desertification in the north of its range.
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It is found in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Sudan, and Uganda.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
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It is found in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Sudan, and Uganda.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
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It is found in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Sudan, and Uganda.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
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It is found in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Sudan, and Uganda.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
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It is found in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Sudan, and Uganda.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Mongalla free-tailed bat (Wikipedia)LeadQuote, Lead
It is found in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Sudan, and Uganda.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Mongalla free-tailed bat (Wikipedia)LeadQuote, Lead
It is found in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Sudan, and Uganda.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Mongalla free-tailed bat (Wikipedia)LeadQuote, Lead
It is found in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Sudan, and Uganda.
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Status
is listed as being of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature
Status, population trend
its population is currently thought to be decreasing
Status, threats
It is threatened by habitat loss caused by the cutting of large trees it roosts in
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It is found in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Sudan, and Uganda.
Status, living or extinct
It occurs in some protected areas, such as the Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna
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