Chestnut short-tailed bat

The chestnut short-tailed bat (Carollia castanea) is a bat from Central and South America that is often confused with Benkeith's short-tailed bat. It is mainly a fruit eater that is also known to eat insects, and plants of the pepper family are its favourite food: to decide which pipers to forage on it first follows odour and then uses echolocation to fix the position of the plant. It hunts between nightfall and midnight, with females active in the first half of that period and males throughout, and it does not reduce its activity during full moons, only in turbulent weather such as heavy rain. It uses hollow trees, caves, cracks, abandoned mines, sewers and house roofs as habitat. In an agricultural setting it shows a higher resistance to habitat fragmentation than similar bat species.