Australia's 'Batman' just found one of the country's most elusive bats, 650 kilometres from anywhere it was known to live

Wildlife ecologist Oli Aylen — nicknamed 'Batman' by his colleagues at Australian Wildlife Conservancy — was surveying Pungalina-Seven Emu Wildlife Sanctuary in the remote Gulf of Carpentaria when his detectors picked up a call almost nobody ever hears: the Arnhem sheath-tailed bat, 650 kilometres east of its last known record near Jabiru. The species, only discovered in 1979, flies high and fast over country so remote it is rarely surveyed. Knowing it lives at Pungalina reshapes the map of where this mysterious bat survives — and where it can be protected.

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