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Rhynchonycteris naso
Tiny bats. Dark brown. Evident long pointy nose. They line up on trees.
Tropical forests and rivers.
Spotted on Jun 11, 2002
Submitted on May 24, 2011
8 Comments
Wow you are really close. We couldn't get so close as there was a lot of debris between the boat and the tree the bats were on...
Thanks for the nice comments!
How lovely!
q bonito
We just saw these this past week as well
What lovely little critters.
Ashish, there is a whole subset of bats called 'micro-bats'. Tasmania, where I live only has micro-bats, whereas on the mainland they have bats so large they are call "flying foxes". Bats comprise one-fifth of all the mammals in the world.
In Costa Rica there are also little white bats that sleep by wrapping themselves on banana leaves..a pity I did not get a pic of these :-)
I never expect Bats can be such size tiny..!!