it has relatively broad wings which are dark brown contrasting with the bright fur of the body.

It has a plain face with no nose leaf and with moderately large brown ears which have a long narrow tragus.

[4] It will roost in abandoned mines and generally prefers large caverns which contain pools of water.

[1] Hunting bats have been recorded in dry and moist savanna, and in mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.

In KwaZulu Natal copulation occurred in May and the females stored the sperm until using it to fertilise the ovum in September, the young were born in November and December, the suckled for six weeks after birth.