O’Donnell, C. F. J. 2001. Home range and use of space by Chalinolobus tuberculatus, a temperate rainforest bat from New Zealand. Journal of Zoology (London) 253: 253–264.
Home range sizes in long-tailed bats were among the largest published for Microchiroptera. These bats were highly mobile. One colony ranged over 100 km² and range size varied among age and sex classes (medians = 237–2,006 ha; max 5629 ha). A prediction that these bats have large ranges to minimise overlap between foraging bats, reflecting scarcity of food, requires testing. Large range size and the degree of individual spacing implies that conservation areas designed for bats should be large.
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