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Yellow-eared bat - URODERMA BILOBATUM
Class: Animals with Milk Glands (Mammalia)
The Name "Bat": "Bat" comes from Old Norse "ledhrblaka," "leather flapper." It became "bakka" and then "bat."
Description: A small bat with erect, pointed noseleaf with rounded sides on a fleshy, horseshoe-shaped base; no visible tail. Pelage (fur) gray-brown with 4 white facial stripes, a median stripe down the lower back, and yellow ear margins. Length of head and body about 2.4 in, forearm 1.6 in; weight up to 0.8 oz.
Location: Mexico, Central America, northern South America.
Habitat: Tropical forests.
Behavior: The yellow-eared bat subsists on a wide variety of tropical fruits and consumes insects as well. Solitary individuals, or small clusters of 10 or more, roost by day in tree hollows or more often under the broad leaves of banana plants or palm trees. Like many tropical bats, they remain alert while resting. Unlike most bats, which make no nest or shelter of any sort, the tent-making bat is known to cut a row of small holes in a palm frond so the edges droop, forming a sort of tent under which the bat hangs. Bats of a closely related Neotropical genus, and a distantly related genus of fruit bats in Sri Lanka, have similar roost-making habits.
Reproduction: A single young is usual; peak periods of birth are March-April and July-August.
Go to the Bats Page to get a general discussion of this flying mammal.
Go to the Bats Index to study the other bats included in America Zoo.
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