Rhinolophus pusillus
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
The least horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus pusillus) is a species of bat in the family Rhinolophidae. It is found in Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam. It is a food source of the parasite Sinospelaeobdella, a jawed land leech.
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Nanjing | 🇨🇳 China |
No species of the same family or order lives in Nanjing, so these are its closest relatives here: other mammals.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Least Horseshoe Bat sighting in Nanjing on a given day, based on 24 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 8th most-seen of the 8 mammals we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
October
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Least Horseshoe Bat in Nanjing on a given day, against under 5% in January, March–April, June, August–September and November, the lowest months. That is one of Nanjing's driest months, with about 55 mm of rain against 240 mm in July.
Between 7 and 10 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Least Horseshoe Bat sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is seen both by day and at night.
Only Nanjing, in our data
Nanjing is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Least Horseshoe Bat sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Least Horseshoe Bat is recorded against all the mammals logged in Nanjing (24 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
