Siberian Whiskered Myotis

The Siberian bat or Siberian whiskered myotis (Myotis sibiricus) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It is found throughout northeastern Asia, primarily in Siberia. It is known for its high life expectancy relative to its body size, approximately twice that of humans, and holds the record for the oldest bat; in 2005, one individual was discovered in a cave in Siberia that had been banded in 1964, making the bat at least 41 years old. == Taxonomy == It was previously classified within the Brandt's bat (M. brandtii), but more recent phylogenetic studies have found deep genetic divergence between both taxa, indicating that both are distinct species from one another, and they have thus been split by authorities including the American Society of Mammalogists, the IUCN Red List, and ITIS. == Distribution and habitat == It is found throughout much of the Palearctic east of the Ob River, from eastern Kazakhstan east throughout southern Siberia to the Kamchatka Peninsula, and south to northern China, northern Mongolia, North Korea, and northern South Korea. It is also known from Sakhalin & the Kuril Islands in Russia, and Hokkaido in Japan. It inhabits both lowland and mountain forests as…