Hildegarde's tomb bat

Hildegarde's tomb bat (Taphozous hildegardeae) is a moderate-sized species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae, endemic to the coastal strip of Kenya and Tanzania. Its range runs from the Tana River estuary in Kenya to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and includes the islands of Pemba and Zanzibar. It roosts in caves and other underground places, often alongside the African sheath-tailed bat, and feeds in dry forest, hunting grasshoppers, butterflies and moths. The head has a long pointed snout and large eyes, the fur is pale greyish brown above and white below, and fully grown males have a black throat patch whose secretions stain the chest fur yellowish brown. Oldfield Thomas described it in 1909, and the name honours the anthropologist Hildegarde Beatrice Hinde. The IUCN assesses it as Endangered: its range covers about 20,000 square kilometres with roughly ten known locations, and it is threatened by disturbance at roosting caves and by degradation of the forests where it hunts.