Peters's flat-headed bat

Peters's flat-headed bat (Platymops setiger) is a small insect-eating bat of the free-tailed bat family Molossidae and the only member of the genus Platymops. It lives in Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan, where it favours dry savanna and rocky country, often near waterholes. Its head and body are extremely flattened, a build that lets it squeeze into narrow crevices under rocks and stones and into fissures in granite cliffs. Adults weigh roughly 7 to 18 grams. Roosts hold a single bat or small groups of up to five, and the bats may share their cracks with scorpions. Females bear a single young, and small beetles are among the prey recorded. The International Union for Conservation of Nature classes the species as Least Concern.