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Order : Chiroptera
Family : Phyllostomidae
Subfamily : Phyllostominae
Species : Trachops cirrhosus
The Fringe-lipped 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 fringelipped bat
A young / baby of a fringelipped bat is called a 'pup'. A fringelipped bat group is called a 'colony or cloud'.Countries
Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela
Facts about the fringe-lipped bat
asp The Fringe-lipped bat (Trachops cirrhosus), is a good listener. (Full text)
The Fringe-lipped bat is known to eat insects, small vertebrates, and some fruit. (Full text)
The fringe-lipped bat is specialized to locate and capture frogs, especially noisy males calling for mates. (Full text)
The frog-eating bat (Trachops cirrhosus) is just one of the exotic bats that we are likely to see on our 1997 members trip to Peru. (Full text)
A fringe-lipped bat (Trachops cirrhosus) is about to feast on a frog, which, like humans and birds, can't hear the bat's echolocation calls. (Full text)
Central America's frog-eating bat (Trachops cirrhosus) is one species that does this. (Full text)
Fringe-lipped bats are unusual because they don't use echolocation to find their prey, and take quite large animals - in fact they specialise in frogs. (Full text)
The fringe-lipped bat is widespread in tropical lowland forests of Central and South America. (Full text)
The fringe-lipped bat is fond of mud-puddle frogs, and it has discovered that the location of its favourite prey can be found by listening to the mating calls. (Full text)
The frog-eating bat (Trachops cirrhosus) is unusual among bats studied because of its reliance on low-frequency (<5 kHz) sounds emitted by frogs for prey localization. (Full text)
Behaviour Fringe-lipped bats are unusual because they don't use echolocation to find their prey, and take quite large animals - in fact they specialise in frogs. (Full text)
1. periphery, fringe, outer boundary -- (the outside boundary or surface of something)periphery
fringe
outer boundary
2. outskirt, fringe -- (a part of the city far removed from the center; "they built a factory on the outskirts of the city")
outskirt
fringe
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