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Desert Red Bat

Lasiurus blossevillii

Description:

This one its an inative female, adult. The forearm have 41,3mm.

Habitat:

This specimen was caught in an edge of a river, on an island in the middle of the river that across my city, a region of transiiton between the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest.

Notes:

I starts my own researches with bats. It's a survey of species caught along the river that across my city. That's one it's a Vespertilionidae. This species feeds of insects and use its uropatagium (the skin between the legs) to catch insects in the air and takes them to mouth.

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3 Comments

LeonardoMB
LeonardoMB 9 years ago

I add some informations about the specimen.

LeonardoMB
LeonardoMB 9 years ago

Thank you!

BrunoMoller
BrunoMoller 9 years ago

Nice pictures

LeonardoMB
Spotted by
LeonardoMB

SP, Brazil

Spotted on Jan 23, 2015
Submitted on Jan 25, 2015

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