Tailed tailless bat

Anoura caudifer is a bat species from the family of leaf lobes ( Phyllostomidae ), which is native to South America.

Description

Anoura caudifer is a relatively small bat with a total length of 47-70 mm. The snout and tongue is long, the ears small and round. The coat is dense, silky and mostly dark brown. The tail is short and embedded in the tail wing membrane. Anoura caudifer differs from Anoura cadenai and Anoura latidens by the presence of tiny tail. Unlike Anoura geoffroyi Anoura caudifer has a fully developed calcar.

Way of life

Colonies of Anoura caudifer usually consist of 5-15 individuals, but can reach a size of up to 100 animals. During the day, tree cavities, tunnels and caves used as a sleeping place. In caves you can find this kind often together with Anoura geoffroyi, Anoura cultrata, Carollia perspicillata and Pteronotus parnellii.

Anoura caudifer feeds mainly on nectar of various plants, among other things, various neotropical legume, passion flower and the Marcgravia, probably with smaller flowers are preferred. This makes an important pollinators of these plants. In order to meet the energy needs must Anoura caudifer visit 800 flowers during 4 hours. She attaches every night a distance of about 50 km back.

Relatively little is known about the reproduction of Anoura caudifer, and the time seems to be locally different.

Distribution and habitat

The proliferation of Anoura caudifer ranges from Colombia to Argentina, the Amazon Basin of Brazil is omitted. Your stock is classified by the IUCN due to the wide distribution and large populations likely to be stable and unthreatened. However, this species is affected by the destruction of their habitat as most neotropical bats.