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An automatic wildlife camera provided the first photographic evidence of the greater horseshoe bat in the canton of Schaffhausen a few weeks ago, as reported by the Regional Coordination Centre for Bat Conservation Schaffhausen on Thursday. The image taken from a manhole contained a surprise: the animal photographed was an unringed specimen, meaning no metal or plastic ring has been attached to its leg for identification.
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The biological sensation of the find only became clear with this photographic evidence. The authorities had already registered the rare bat species in the canton for the first time in 2023. At that time, it was a female ringed in Germany that had flown across the border. Since then, the researchers assumed that only this one, solitary animal alternates between two summer roosts in the Schaffhausen area.
