Big-eared Wooly Bat

Big-eared Wooly Bat

Taxobox
name = Big-eared Woolly Bat
status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Chiroptera
familia = Phyllostomidae
genus = "Chrotopterus"
species = "C. auritus"
binomial = "Chrotopterus auritus"
binomial_authority = Peters, 1865

The Big-eared Woolly Bat (or (Peter's) Woolly False Vampire Bat), "Chrotopterus auritus", is a bat species native to Central and South America.

They are large predatory bats, the second largest bat species in the neotropics, and feed on fruits, beetles, moths, lizards, small mammals (including opossums and rodents), birds (including passerine birds) and other bat species. They can take prey of up to 70 g weight, but usually feed on smaller vertebrates of 10 to 35 g.

This bat species lives in warm subtropical forests, usually roosting in caves and hollow logs where they, sometimes, bring their prey to eat. Sometimes they cannot be found in disturbed forests.

Big-eared Woolly Bats fly slowly, partially because of their size, flying at 1 or 2 meters above ground and usually in dense thickets. They give birth to a single young after a gestation period of more than 100 days. Colonies size vary between one to seven individuals, consisting of a male-female adult pair and young(s).

References

* Theodore H. Flemming, 2003. A Bat Man in the Tropics: Chasing El Duende.
* Mammals of the Neotropics, 2000: Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil.
* Louise H. Emmons and François Feer, 2000. Neotropical Rainforest Mammals.


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