BBC Wildlife Magazine

IT’S COLD OUTSIDE NEW ZEALAND BAT FLY

The popular naturalist, author and TV presenter reveals a secret world of overlooked wildlife

HERE’S A FLY THAT DOESN’T HAVE wings and a bat that doesn’t use the ones it has as much as you might expect. Both these evolutionary oddballs live side by side in a weird marriage made in heaven… or rather New Zealand. The New Zealand bat fly () is found hanging around and on the furry bodies of the country’s only endemic

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