High long-term survival of PIT-tagged pekapeka | lesser short-tailed bats (Mystacina tuberculata) through annual pest control operations
Control of introduced mammalian predators is important for the protection of pekapeka | lesser short-tailed bat (Mystacina tuberculata) populations, but toxins used to control these predators may also pose a risk to bats when they forage on invertebrates that have consumed toxic bait or if bats directly consume bait.