Greater Round-eared Bat

Taxobox | name = Greater Round-eared Bat
status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Chiroptera
familia = Phyllostomidae
genus = "Tonatia"
species = "T. bidens"
binomial = "Tonatia bidens"
binomial_authority = Spix, 1823

The Greater Round-eared Bat, "Tonatia bidens", is a bat species from South and Central America. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Paraguay and Trinidad and Tobago. The species feeds on fruit as well as hunting small birds. Once caught birds are taken to a shelter and consumed.

References

* [http://www.natureserve.org/infonatura/ Infonatura]
*Martuscelli, P. (1995) "Avian Predation by the Round-Eared Bat ("Tonatia bidens", Phyllostomidae) in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest" "Journal of Tropical Ecology", 11 (3): 461-464