| 单词 | bumblebee bat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbumblebee bat bumblebee bat n. a tiny insectivorous bat, Craseonycteris thonglongyai (family Craseonycteridae), native to western Thailand and southeast Myanmar, having a reddish-brown or grey coat and a piglike snout.The bumblebee bat is thought to be the world's smallest mammal in terms of size, but not weight.Also called Kitti's hog-nosed bat. ΚΠ 1974 J. E. Hill in Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.): Zool. (1976) 27 316 The suiform muzzle of Craseonycteris thonglongyai has suggested (H. Elliott McClure, in litt.) the vernacular name ‘Hog-nosed bat’ for this species: it has also been described (J. T. Marshall, in litt.) as the ‘Bumble-bee bat’. 1984 Guardian 15 Nov. 7/7 In Asia, the kouprey wild ox of Kampuchea and bumblebee bat in Thailand, at two grammes the smallest mammal, have both being included in the lists as under extreme threat. 2011 T. A. Vaughan et al. Mammalogy (ed. 5) xv. 272/2 Bumblebee bats roost by day in caves and eat small arthropods that are probably gleaned from leaf surfaces. < as lemmas |
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