| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1987 |
| Authors: | M. Lindeque |
| Journal: | Madoqua |
| Volume: | 15 |
| Pagination: | 183-185 |
| Date Published: | 1987 |
| Keywords: | Chiroptera, copulation, Etosha National Park, flight, Namibia, Nycteridae, Nycteris thebaica, Southern Africa |
| Abstract: | Precopulatory and copulatory sequences of mating behaviour are described in a microchiropteran bat. After a brief period of courtship, copulation occurs in flight with both bats hovering. Copulation is of short duration and is repeated up to three times. |