Mexican fruit bat

Thank you Karen and Sergio

I like second photo very much.

Awesome captures Luis! I love #2!

It is now in the North American Bat Tracker. Thank you Ava.

Please consider adding this spotting to the new Bat Tracker mission at http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1830...

Gracias Yuriana

nice as all your pics Luis. Felicidades!

Thank you shekainah d. alaban

The it seems the house is not abandoned at all.

Thank you VictoriaShirleyPhotography

oh my gosh they are so cute!

Thank you Carol, Gerardo, nexttogone, Yuko and Ava T-B

Thank you very much Lauren for all this info and work for the correct ID of these beautiful bats. Best regards.

Hi Luis. Dr. Wilson just wrote "After enlarging the 4 photos and looking at them in depth with my colleague Al Gardner, I think the Leptonycteris nivalis is correct, but now I think the rest of them are actually Artibeus toltecus, a smaller species of Artibeus".
So these three pictures are now officially Artibeus toltecus. Makes more sense, since they were all in the same house.
Saludos.

Thanks Roland, I´ll be waiting for your post of Flying Fox.

Nice shot, Here in Borneo we have the largest fruit bats called Flying Fox, we hear them every night in my fruit trees, I always try to get a picture of them but always fail as they fly off or close up making it harder to see. But I hope to see one one day and get a picture, sometimes in right time you can see them before sunset...we have many little fruit bats like the ones you post in my Mango trees or banana trees....

Lauren, thank you very much for the info. Dr. Wilson is right, the pictures 1 and 2 are from the same room and the third picture is from a second room in the same old abandoned house in the forest. This is amazing, I couldn't tell the difference.

Hi Luis, Dr. Wilson of the Smithsonian confirms that pictures 1 and 2 are of the Mexican Fruit Bat Artibeus jamaicensis. He thinks the 3rd one might be Sturnira lilium (also a fruit eating bat), but is awaiting a second opinion. Were all these bats in exactly the same place? Could the Sturnira have been separated?

Gracias Noel

Great series Luis!

Thank you Despina Tsafetopoulou for the ID and the link

This is such a great series.

Cute! Must have been nice to be welcome by such a big family!

Too cool! ")

Great series Luis :)