Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
June 1823
Primary Source Reference:
Philadelphia Museum, or Register of Natural History and the Arts, 1, no. 1 (January 1824): 6
Additional Source Text:
The account of the maternal affection of the bat also appeared in Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, 4 Feb 1824.
Notes:
John D. Godman, in his American Natural History. Part I. Mastology, 3 vols. (Philadelphia, 1826-1828), 1:56-57, 68, quotes the entire account of the maternal affection of the bat from the Philadelphia Museum, attributing it to Titian Ramsay Peale. / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49165285
Richard Harlan, in Fauna Americana: Being a Description of the Mammiferous Animals Inhabiting North America (Philadelphia, 1825), p. 23-24, identifies this species as Taphozous rufus or Vespertilio rufus, the red bat of Pennsylvania, and also relates the story / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3194363
Specimen Type:
Living/Live (presumably eventually taxidermied/preserved)
Peale's Common Name:
Red bat
Peale's Scientific Name:
Vespertilio Nov-Eboracensis Linn.
Current Common Name:
Eastern red bat
Current Scientific Name
Lasiurus borealis
