Distribution
The ghost bat was once widely distributed throughout Australia, but over the past 10 years, researchers have failed to find evidence of the species in areas it had once inhabited. Recently, it has been discovered that there was an unexplained northern contraction of ghost bats both before and after European settlement in Australia. There are isolated congregations of bats in specified maternity sites in which the alleles expressed by the females are completely different; this implies that the separation of such populations extends through evolutionary time. This scattering into small sects of populations greatly raises the species’ threat to extinction (Worthington Wilmer, et al).
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