White-striped Free-tailed Bat
by John Gould
Title
White-striped Free-tailed Bat
Artist
John Gould
Medium
Drawing - Drawing
Description
White-striped Free-tailed Bat by John Gould.
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John Gould's Mammals of Australia (1845–63)
The White-striped Freetail Bat is the largest of all the free-tail bats and is one of the few microbats with echolocation calls that can be heard by humans. They are known as freetail bats because part of their bony tail extends beyond the tail membrane. In 1838, the English ornithologist John Gould set sail for Australia with his wife, the artist Elizabeth Gould. The gorgeous lithographs included in The Mammals of Australia were made by H. C. Richter, based on drawings done by both Elizabeth and John during their time on the continent. These indelible images of the platypus, the sugar glider, and the Tasmanian tiger, among others introduced countless nineteenth-century readers to the existence of these extraordinary creatures.
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