Greater spear-nosed bat

The greater spear-nosed bat, Phyllostomus hastatus, is a bat of the family Phyllostomidae from South and Central America and one of the larger bats of that region. It lives in tropical regions from Guatemala and Belize south to Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, northern Argentina and Brazil, and it also occurs in Trinidad and Tobago, in open and forested country and most often near water. It has a body about 100 to 130 millimetres long, a wingspan of 455 millimetres, dark brown fur and a spear-shaped nose-leaf. It is omnivorous, eating fruit, seeds, pollen, nectar and insects and occasionally small vertebrates. It roosts in caves, tree hollows, termite mounds and thatched roofs in colonies where one dominant male presides over a harem of up to thirty females, and it both pollinates and damages crops.