Greater round-eared bat

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Greater round-eared bat
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Phyllostomidae
Genus: Tonatia
Species:
T. bidens
Binomial name
Tonatia bidens
Spix, 1823
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The greater round-eared bat (Tonatia bidens) is a bat species found in northeastern and southern Brazil, northern Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia. [1] [2] The species feeds on fruit as well as hunting small birds. Once caught, birds are taken to a shelter and consumed. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 Barquez, R.; Diaz, M. (2016). "Tonatia bidens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T21983A21975435. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T21983A21975435.en . Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Simmons, Nancy B. (2005). "Chiroptera". In Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 312–529. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0 . Retrieved 12 September 2009.
  3. ↑ Martuscelli, Paulo (2009). "Avian predation by the Round-eared Bat ( Tonatia bidens, Phyllostomidae) in the Brazilian Atlantic forest". Journal of Tropical Ecology. 11 (3): 461–464. doi:10.1017/S0266467400008944.


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