I can't say for sure Mona, and from pictures of leaf-nosed bats suggested by AfriBtas, the ears and nose of these don't look alike at all? I've added another close up of the heads, maybe that will help. Otherwise, I still think that Gerardo Aizpuru suggestion is right on.
Okay.. I will try to check other books again and internet aswell to get some information..., I can't stop thinking about something if I can't I.D it. :-) For me the shape of the nose is not that too long. But I might be wrong..
Mona, right now with the lousy WiFi here at work, I'm unable to check out your link. I'll have a look once I get home or when the connection here is better.
http://www.visualphotos.com/image/2x5959779/mexico_sonora_common_vampire_bat_desmodus_rotundus This what I think about at the moment. That's a very nice photographs Glen, should be able to I.D
I'm in the same boat and I was quite lucky getting these shots. My sister spotted one flying in and told me I had just missed a bat. I went back down into the darkness to have a look and just pointed my camera at something dark on the ceiling. It wasn't until we had come back out that I zoomed into the pictures to find that there were 6 of them huddled together.
It was 28c that day, a few degrees cooler down in the catacombs of this old church. I think they just naturally huddle together, maybe to keep warm or maybe for the feeling of being safer in a close group?
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