Bioacoustics of Molossus molossus

Recordings

145 in audioBlast.

iNat174829677 Velvety Free-tailed Bat (Molossus molossus)

capepolly 2023-06-28 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat185229383 Velvety Free-tailed Bat (Molossus molossus)

Chalon Boesel 2023-09-12 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat185230642 Velvety Free-tailed Bat (Molossus molossus)

Chalon Boesel 2023-09-17 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat201071185 Velvety Free-tailed Bat (Molossus molossus)

Cathy Pasterczyk 2024-02-24 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat277804324 Velvety Free-tailed Bat (Molossus molossus)

Anais Bonnefond 2025-04-27 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat340347998 Velvety Free-tailed Bat (Molossus molossus)

pierre_mallet 2026-01-23 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat351064477 Velvety Free-tailed Bat (Molossus molossus)

pierre_mallet 2026-01-26 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat391493751 Velvety Free-tailed Bat (Molossus molossus)

zm77 2026-06-29 iNaturalist listen › record

XC1162953 Pallas's Mastiff Bat (Molossus molossus) - echolocation

100 s

Jidal Matteo 2026-08-01 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1063026 Pallas's Mastiff Bat (Molossus molossus) - echolocation, feeding buzz

6 s

Mulokot & Stijn Nollen 2025-11-24 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1063025 Pallas's Mastiff Bat (Molossus molossus) - echolocation

3 s

Mulokot & Stijn Nollen 2025-11-24 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1063019 Pallas's Mastiff Bat (Molossus molossus) - echolocation, social call

5 s

Mulokot & Stijn Nollen 2025-11-24 xeno-canto listen › record

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References

Publications audioBlast links to this taxon.

• O'Farrell, Michael J.; Miller, Bruce W.; Gannon, William L. (1999) Qualitative Identification of Free-flying Bats Using the Anabat Detector
  Journal of MammalogyJournal of Mammalogy, 80, 11-23
• O'Farrell, Michael J.; Miller, Bruce W.; Gannon, William L. (1999) Qualitative Identification of Free-flying Bats Using the Anabat Detector
  Journal of MammalogyJournal of Mammalogy, 80, 11-23
• Geipel, Inga; Smeekes, Marcus J.; Halfwerk, Wouter; Page, Rachel A. (2019) Noise as an informational cue for decision-making: the sound of rain delays bat emergence
  The Journal of Experimental Biology, jeb.192005
  doi:10.1242/jeb.192005

Sources

The rows audioBlast holds for this taxon, each matched to the same Catalogue of Life node. Where a source classifies it differently, its own classification is kept.

Source	Its name	Its rank	Its family	Record
iNaturalist	Molossus molossus	Species	Molossidae	iNaturalist/41254
xeno-canto	Molossus molossus	Species	—	xeno-canto/Molossus molossus
BAbio.acousti.ca	Molossus molossus	Species	Molossidae	bio.acousti.ca/6647
BAbio.acousti.ca	Molossus molossus	Species	Molossidae	bio.acousti.ca/7310

Machine-readable

Bioschemas is in the head of this page. The Darwin Core RDF lives at the API address below, which negotiates JSON-LD and Turtle.

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