The British long-eared bat has a body only two inches long from the tip of its nose to the base of its tail, but its ears are an inch and a-half long, and three-quarters of an inch broad. When the bat proposes to go to sleep, it bends them outwards, and then backwards, folding them down on each side of its head and shoulders before bringing up its wings to cover its sides. When the little bat wakes it is a business to straighten the cumbrous ears into position again. In fact. he holds them for some little time hilfcock, before he is able to erect th£m fully.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20509, 10 January 1935, Page 9
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