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The article reports on a study of the Marshall's horseshoe bat's postnatal growth at Hekou County in Yunnan Province, China. It examines the use of mark-recapture data including the detection of the absence of differences in forearm length and body mass among the females and males at birth. It discusses the agility of the young bats in flying on their 31st day, growth patterns of the forearm and body mass. It offers information on the linear increase of the epiphyseal gap in the metacarpal-phalangeal joint.