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Field Notes

Description:

Sleeping on a tree. Costa Rica has over 110 species of bats, making up more than half of the native mammal species in the country.

Species ID Suggestions

sheath-tailed bat

Emballonuridae
AfriBats
1

Comments (1)
AfriBats
either Saccopteryx sp. or Rhynchonycteris naso
Photographed
PublishedMarch 11, 2011

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