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Local rangers in Fiordland undertake short-tailed bat monitoring in order to protect and learn more about these special, little native critters. But sometimes they are not the only little critter on show…. The New Zealand bat fly is a wingless fly that lives alongside short tailed bats and is a creature of nightmares for some.

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Native bats are something few New Zealander’s know exist, let alone have ever seen. Two species live in Fiordland and local rangers are undertaking monitoring in order to protect and learn more about these special little critters.

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Isolated from the world for 80 million years, New Zealand boasts some of the world’s most unusual animal species. The ultimate evolutionary island laboratory.

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