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Leafnosed Bats

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Leaf-nosed Bats, the family Rhinolophidae, from temperate and tropical parts of the eastern hemisphere. They are distinguished by their enormous leaf-like growths on and around the nostrils, and the cusped molars fitted to crush the wing-cases of the beetles on which they feed.

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