Over on the Caribbean island of Cuba, our Bat stretches a wing and scratches at her shoulder, just below the patch of pure white fur. A warm wind rustles across the surface of her green leaf tent when...WHOOSH! #2025MMM
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She's suddenly mid-air in the Costa Rican forest from #MMMagic translocation! She flings out her long wings just in time, the trailing edge of her wing brushes ever so slightly against a long, fluffy...flower? #2025MMM
Bat's nose leaf twitches rapidly as she echolocates, getting her bearings. Though the forest is not that differnet from home, she does not like moonlight... (Zeppelini et al 2019). #2025MMM
and despite the name, Fig-Eating Bat doesn't particularly like FIGS. Analyses of fecal samples reveal this bat consumes Cercropia seeds, non-native rose-apple (Syzgium) & insects. (Mancina and Garcia-Rivera 2000) #2025MMM
Fig-Eating Bat catches an insect RIGHT AS Coati SNAP grabs the bat in his mouth... after all, fecale samples of Coati reveal 10% of their diet can mammal prey! (Alves-Costa et al. 2004; Valenzuela 1998) #2025MMM
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#TeamNoCarnage #2025MMM