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{{Taxobox
| name = Brandt's bat
| image = Myotis brandti.jpg
| status = LC
| status_system = iucn3.1
| status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{IUCN2008 | vassessors = Hutson AM, Spitzenberger F, Coroiu I, Aulagnier S, Juste J, Karataş A, Palmeirim J, Paunović M | last-assessor-amp = yes | year = 2008 | title = Myotis brandtii | id = 14125 | downloaded = 2008-01-27}}</ref>
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]
| classis = [[Mammal]]ia
| ordo = [[Chiroptera]]
| familia = [[Vespertilionidae]]
| genus = ''[[Myotis]]''
| species = '''''M. brandtii'''''
| binomial = ''Myotis brandtii''
| binomial_authority = ([[Eduard Friedrich Eversmann|Eversmann]], 1845)
| synonyms = 
| range_map = Myotis brandtii range map.png
| range_map_caption = 
| range_map_alt = 
}}

'''Brandt's bat''' (''Myotis brandtii'') is a species of [[vesper bat]] in the family [[Vespertilionidae]].
It is found throughout most of Europe and parts of Asia. It is known for its extreme [[life expectancy]] relative to its body size, approximately twice that of humans.<ref name="Locke">{{cite journal | author = Robert Locke | year = 2006 | title = The oldest bat | journal = BATS Magazine | volume = 24 | issue = 2 }}</ref>
The Brandt's bat holds the record for oldest bat recorded; in 2006, a [[Animal migration tracking#Technologies for tracking|banded]] bat was discovered in a cave in Siberia that had been banded in 1964, making the bat at least 41 years old.<ref name="Locke"/>

It is named for the German zoologist [[Johann Friedrich von Brandt]].

== Echolocation ==

The frequencies used by this bat species for echolocation lie between 32 and 103&nbsp;kHz, have maximum energy density at 51&nbsp;kHz and have an average duration of 4.2 ms.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Parsons S, Jones G | last-author-amp = yes | year = 2000 | title = Acoustic identification of twelve species of echolocating bat by discriminant function analysis and artificial neural networks | journal = J Exp Biol | volume = 203 | pages = 2641–2656|pmid=10934005}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Obrist MK, Boesch R, Flückiger PF | last-author-amp = yes | year = 2004 | title = Variability in echolocation call design of 26 Swiss bat species: Consequences, limits and options for automated field identification with a synergic pattern recognition approach | journal = Mammalia | volume = 68 | issue = 4 | pages = 307–32 | doi=10.1515/mamm.2004.030}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.arkive.org/species/ARK/mammals/Myotis_brandtii/ ARkive] Photographs
* [http://www.batcon.org/index.php/media-and-info/bats-archives.html?task=viewArticle&magArticleID=164 Bats Magazine] The oldest bats

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[[Category:Mouse-eared bats]]
[[Category:Bats of Europe]]
[[Category:Mammals of Russia]]
[[Category:Mammals of Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:Mammals of Turkey]]


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