habitat_narrative

Terrestrial

The habitat of this species appears to be semi-arid savanna, associated with rocky hills and inselbergs (Cotterill 1996, 2001), but studies of actual roosting behaviour are a prerequisite for an accurate assessment of its habitat requirements. In Zimbabwe, a specimen has been collected from under a rock crevice about 20 m above ground level, a roost shared with T. fulminans and Chaerephon ansorgei (Monadjem et al. 2010). There is a single record of a specimen collected from the roof of a  house but this appears to be unusual behaviour in this species (Cotterill 1996). The distributions of large molossid bats (Tadarida fulminans, T. lobata, and T. ventralis) are closely associated with crevice roosts in granite precipices (Cotterill and Fergusson 1993, Cotterill 2001), and thus granite outcrops may be important habitat areas.