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| Subspecies: | Unknown |
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| CITES Status: | NOT LISTED |
| IUCN Status: | Least Concern |
| U.S. ESA Status: | NOT LISTED |
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| Jumping Ability: | (Horizontal) |
| Life Span: | in the Wild |
| Life Span: | in Captivity |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Females) |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Males) |
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Habitat:
This species forages by gleaning for insects around dense vegetation in primary and secondary tropical moist forest, sclerophyll forests, and rural gardens. It roosts in groups of up to 50 animals in caves, mines, tunnels, and sometimes in tree hollows (Bonaccorso 1998).
Range:
This species is endemic to the island of New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago. It has also been recorded in the Raja Ampat Islands (Batanta and Waigeo Island, Wiantoro 2011) and the Teluk Wondama and Teluk Bintuni Regencies (Sinery et al. 2020) of the West Papua Province of Indonesia, and also several areas close to the border with Papua New Guinea in Papua Province. Within Papua New Guinea it has been recorded in Central, East New Britain, East Sepik, Gulf, Madang, Morobe, New Ireland, Oro, Southern Highlands and Western Provinces (Bonaccorso 1998; Flannery 1995a,b). It appears to prefer lowland areas but has been recorded as high as ca 1,000 m asl in elevation (K.N. Armstrong unpubl. data). A general lack of survey effort is likely to be the reason why it appears absent from other parts of the Papua and West Papua provinces of Indonesia.
Conservation:
Key conservation actions for this species are the protection of known roosting sites in caves, and the identification and protection of additional important roosting sites. Broadscale protection of forests will also help maintain population size in this species. Research is needed to evaluate the species taxonomy and its population size, distribution, and trends.