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Greater spear-nosed bat
Adult weight : 0.081 kg (0.1782 lbs)
Maximum longevity : 18 years
Gestation : 120 days
Litter size : 1
Basal metabolic rate : 1 W
Body mass : 0.084 kg (0.1848 lbs)
Temperature : 34.85 °C (94.73 °F)
Greater spear-nosed bat
Order : Chiroptera
Family : Phyllostomidae
Subfamily : Phyllostominae
Species : Phyllostomus hastatus
The Greater spear-nosed bat is listed as Least Concern (LR/lc), lowest risk. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Namings for the greater spearnosed bat
A young / baby of a greater spearnosed bat is called a 'pup'. A greater spearnosed bat group is called a 'colony or cloud'.Countries
Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela
Facts about the greater spear-nosed bat
"The greater spear-nosed bat is one of only a few mammals beside humans that have an extremely stable group of unrelated individuals," says Bohn. (Full text)
But the only thing that really bothers Maryland doctoral student Kirsten "Kisi" Bohn, who spends hours at a time in this B horror-flick setting, studying the cave's greater spear-nosed bats, are the giant cockroaches coming at her in the blackness. (Full text)
1. Phyllostomus hastatus -- (a variety of leaf-nosed bat)Phyllostomus hastatus
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