Bats!

Front 1

Rhinopomatidae

Back 1

Mouse-tailed bats
Long tail extends freely
Ears connected across forehead, small nose leaf
Roost in caves, cliffs, houses, pyramids
Aerial insectivores

Front 2

Nycteridae

Back 2

Slit-faced bats
Mostlyinsectivorousgleaners,but large slit-faced bat (Nycteris grandis) eats frogs, birds, fish, other small bats as well; agile flyers

Front 3

Megadermatidae

Back 3

False vampire bats
Large ears connected across forehead, bifid (forked) tragus, & large nose leaf

2 sp insectivorous, 3 sp eat larger prey (carnivorous)

Front 4

Rhinolophidae

Back 4

Horseshoe bats,
Peculiar leaf-nose expansion making horseshoe
Catch insects in flight, glean spiders or insects from veg., or can sally from perch

Front 5

Hipposideridae

Back 5

Old world leaf-nosed bats
Unlike Rhinolophidae, forage in small groups, most cave-dwelling but a few sp roost in trees
 Insectivorous; one moth specialist has 200 kHz freq to avoid detection

Front 6

Craseonycteridae

Back 6

Bumblebee bats,
Tiny- 2 g (one of smallest living mammals)
Solitary roosting in limestone caves
Eats small arthropods, probably gleaned from foliage

Front 7

Myzopodidae

Back 7

Sucker-footed bats
Suction cups at the base of thumb & under heel, function by gluing instead of suction

Roosts head upward on fronds of vegetation

Large ears, mushroom-shaped process at base of ear (unique)

Insectivorous

Front 8

Mystacinidae

Back 8

New Zealand short-tailed bats

Terrestrial bats, can forage on the ground; limbs permit quadrupedal locomotion, wing can be folded compactly, extra talon on claws of thumb and feet

Front 9

Noctilionidae

Back 9

Bulldog/Fishing bats
One sp specialized for eating fish, both also eat insects captured in air, or gleaned from surface of water

Loudest known bats, 140 decibels

Front 10

Phyllostomidae

Back 10

New world leaf-nosed bats
Range from 8-190 g, most diverse family of bats morphologically

Variable diets

Tent-building bats bite through palm fronds to fold in half as tents

Front 11

Mormoopidae

Back 11

includes ghost faced bats

Neotropics, including some arid
areas

Long, narrow wings for rapid flight, forage near water

Roost in warm, humid caves in large colonies

Insectivorous

Front 12

Natalidae

Back 12

Funnel-eared bats

Yellow-reddish brown fur, no nose leaf, tragus present

Neotropics, humid habitats

Front 13

Furipteridae

Back 13

small grey bat, Smoky bats
Reduced & functionless thumbs
 Insectivorous
 Poorly known, some found roosting under fallen trees and logs

Front 14

Thyropteridae

Back 14

Disk-winged bats

Neotropical rain forests

Stalked sucker disks at base of thumb & under heel- help roosting in curled leaves of tropical plants, roost head upwards
Funnel ears & reduced thumb

Front 15

Emballonuridae

Back 15

Sac-winged/Sheath-tailed bats

No complex facial structures
Have sacs on propatagium that secrete strong odor, esp in males, used in courtship

Front 16

Molossidae

Back 16

Free-tailed bats

World wide tropical and
subtropical

Capable of quadrupedal locomotion

Most live in large colonies

Fast-flying bats,

long, narrow wings, aerial
insectivores; fly high and fast over long distances

Front 17

Vespertilionidae

Back 17

Evening bats

World wide (except high Arctic
and Antarctica)

Usually no leaf nose, but large tragus, variable ears
 Mostly insectivorous, most aerial but some gleaners

Front 18

Miniopteridae

Back 18

Long-fingered bats

Long wingspans for body size, third digit has very long second phalanx that is folded inward when bat not in flight

Aerial insectivores for high-flying insects, short, broad ears with tragus

Front 19

Pteropodidae

Back 19

Old World fruit bats, or flying foxes,

Mostly fruit eaters, found by vision and smell

Don’t hibernate, don’t echolocate much