The great stripe-faced bat, also known as the stripe-faced vampire bat (Vampyrodes caraccioli), is a medium to large fruit-eating bat found from southern Mexico through Central America to Bolivia and northwestern Brazil, and on Trinidad. It belongs to the subfamily Stenodermatinae of the family Phyllostomidae and is one of only two species in the genus Vampyrodes. Adults weigh roughly 25 to 34 grams and are marked by bright white stripes along the sides of the face and a white stripe down the middle of the back, with a well developed nose-leaf that is longer than it is wide. It forages at night for fruit, especially figs and bananas, and also takes pollen, carrying a fruit to a separate feeding roost close by. By day it roosts in palm fronds and foliage, rarely using the same roost on consecutive days. Owls and opossums prey on it, and it is rated least concern by the IUCN.
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including eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, Peru, northern Bolivia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Brazil
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Source Great stripe-faced bat (Wikipedia)Distribution and habitatQuote, Distribution and habitat
including eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, Peru, northern Bolivia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Brazil
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Great stripe-faced bat (Wikipedia)Distribution and habitatQuote, Distribution and habitat
including eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, Peru, northern Bolivia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Brazil
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Great stripe-faced bat (Wikipedia)Distribution and habitatQuote, Distribution and habitat
including eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, Peru, northern Bolivia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Brazil
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Great stripe-faced bat (Wikipedia)Distribution and habitatQuote, Distribution and habitat
including eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, Peru, northern Bolivia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Brazil
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Great stripe-faced bat (Wikipedia)Distribution and habitatQuote, Distribution and habitat
including eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, Peru, northern Bolivia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Brazil
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Great stripe-faced bat (Wikipedia)Distribution and habitatQuote, Distribution and habitat
including eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, Peru, northern Bolivia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Brazil
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Great stripe-faced bat (Wikipedia)Distribution and habitatQuote, Distribution and habitat
including eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, Peru, northern Bolivia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Brazil
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Great stripe-faced bat (Wikipedia)Distribution and habitatQuote, Distribution and habitat
including eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, Peru, northern Bolivia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Brazil
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Great stripe-faced bat (Wikipedia)Distribution and habitatQuote, Distribution and habitat
including eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, Peru, northern Bolivia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Brazil
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Status and conservation
is considered a species of least concern
Lead, diet
The great stripe-faced bat is a frugivore.
Behaviour and feeding
Being nocturnal frugivores
Behaviour and feeding, roosts
Great stripe-faced bats tend to create their day roosts in palm fronds, branches and foliage.
Lead, living
is a bat species found from southern Mexico to Bolivia and northwestern Brazil
Distribution and habitat
including eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, Peru, northern Bolivia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Brazil
Child Taxon Of: Phyllostomidae, Taxonomy
in the larger family of Phyllostomidae
In Group: Bats (Chiroptera), Lead, bat group
is a bat species found from southern Mexico to Bolivia and northwestern Brazil
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