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From: sabol@reed.UUCP (Bryan Sabol)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Australian bats - placental or marsupial?
Message-ID: <9234@reed.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 88 00:04:19 GMT
References: <394@aiva.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: sabol@reed.UUCP (Bryan Sabol)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <394@aiva.ed.ac.uk> rw@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Richard White) writes:
>of bat was mentioned. Questions: a) are Australian bats placental or
>marsupial? b) if placental, are there any other indigenous placental
>mammals in Australia ( if indeed bats are indigenous ) c) are there any
>species of flying marsupials ( i.e. not gliding ) elsewhere in the world?
					 

	I can't give you specific sources of information, but as long as
you're talking about true bats, then I'm pretty sure that they are
placental.  I doubt that they're indigenous (educated guess here); and I
doubt that there is any flying marsupial...bats were always termed the
only flying mammal, period.

bryan sabol
reedie at large