Greater Round-eared Bat

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Greater Round-eared Bat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Phyllostomidae
Genus: Tonatia
Species: T. bidens
Binomial name
Tonatia bidens
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.

[edit] References

  • 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
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