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The shredder bat was a family of bat species, originally native to the Core Worlds planet Atrisia. The species, which grew up to one meter in length and wingspan, had highly sensitive hearing produced by a series of hearing organs along its neck and forehead. Such acute hearing enabled the shredder bat to pinpoint prey up to fifteen kilometers away. The bats traveled in packs and attacked by dive-bombing prey with great speed and accuracy, sometimes killing their targets instantly.

Shredder bats spread to over a thousand worlds, including Hethar and Pallaxides. The various species were occasionally hunted for sport, but more often were considered dangerous and unwanted predators. Scientists speculated over the mode of transmission between planets, with some xenobiologists proposing the shredder bats utilized infant hibernation such that otherwise ignorant target creatures carried their eggs.