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Has an excellent sense of smell.
Perception Channels: tactile ; chemical
Common and widespread.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: least concern
None known.
Important disperser for many plants. Bats eat up to around 35 fruits of the genus Piper per night, which translates to 350-2,500 seeds dispersed per night per individual. Also may be an important pollinator to many plant species.
Generalist, feeding on a least 50 different species of fruit. Also pollen and insects. Generally forage close to the ground.
Central and South America: S, Mexico to Bolivia, Paraguay, and SE Brazil; to 2,400 m elevation.
Biogeographic Regions: neotropical (Native )
Found in the moist evergreen and dry deciduous forests, usually below 1,000m but up to 1,500m.
Terrestrial Biomes: forest ; rainforest
Average lifespan
Status: captivity: 12.4 years.
Other Physical Features: endothermic ; bilateral symmetry
Average mass: 15 g.
Average basal metabolic rate: 0.24 W.
Two reproductive periods. The larger one coincides with peak fruit productions, (June-August) and the other with the blooming of flowers at the end of the dry season (Feb.-May.) Gestation is 115-120 days. Newborns weigh about 5g.
Key Reproductive Features: gonochoric/gonochoristic/dioecious (sexes separate); sexual
Average birth mass: 5 g.
Average gestation period: 95 days.
Average number of offspring: 1.
Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (male)
Sex: male: 258 days.
Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (female)
Sex: female: 258 days.
