Angolan free-tailed bat

The Angolan free-tailed bat (Mops condylurus) is a species of bat in the family Molossidae and one of the most widely distributed bats of its kind in Africa. The source lists it from Angola and Botswana through central, eastern and western Africa to South Africa, living in dry and moist savanna and sometimes at the edges of woodland. Scottish zoologist Andrew Smith described it in 1833 under the now-defunct genus Nyctinomus, and the species name probably derives from the Latin word for a rounded knob on a bone, echoing Smith's description of it as knob-tailed. It has short, silky brown fur, black ears, blackish-brown wings and wrinkled lips, and half of its tail extends beyond the edge of the tail membrane. From nose to tail tip it measures about 11 centimetres. The bat is nocturnal and roosts by day in sheltered places such as human structures, tree hollows and rock crevices. The IUCN evaluated it as least concern in 2017.