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Sebas Short Tailed Bat Facts. Harems made up of one male and many females and bachelor groups made up of adult and sub-adult males not attached to harems. They are found in Central America the northern parts of South America and in the Antilles islands. Sebas short-tailed bats take their name from a spear-shaped protuberance of varying sizes on their noses called a noseleaf. It is found in Bolivia Brazil Colombia Ecuador French Guiana Guyana Panama Peru Suriname Mexico and Venezuela.
They live in a variety of habitats including tropical rainforests tropical deciduous forests temperate. There are over 1000 different species of bats and they occur on every continent except Antarctica. This is a dark to rusty brown bat with large ears a short tail and a leaf like protrusion on the top of. They are known to feed on a range of over 50 species of fruiting plant. Harems made up of one male and many females and bachelor groups made up of adult and sub-adult males not attached to harems. They favor seeds of the genus Piper from the black pepper family but also eat other plants fruit pollen and insects.
Important disperser for many plants.
Here at the Zoo you might see them eating bananas or drinking a smoothie their keepers prepare for them. Carollia perspicillata is a medium sized bat with black flat brown grey or vibrant orange dorsal region upper parts and pale ventral region under parts. Sebas short-tailed bats take their name from a spear-shaped protuberance of varying sizes on their noses called a noseleaf. Short-Tailed Fruit Bat Scientific Classification. Sebas short-tailed bat Carollia perspicillata. Flowers are visited by Sebas Short-tailed Bat.