Hairy fruit-eating bat

The hairy fruit-eating bat, Artibeus hirsutus, is a species of leaf-nosed bat in the family Phyllostomidae that is endemic to Mexico, where it occurs along the Pacific slope from Sonora south to Guerrero. It weighs about 32 to 47 grams and has short, velvety, pale gray fur whose tips look frosted silvery, with faint whitish facial stripes and a short, broad muzzle. It lives in tropical deciduous forest and arid uplands, occasionally in mango and fig groves, from the lowlands up to about 2,575 metres, and it is usually netted over streams and ponds. Roosts include abandoned mines, small caves, buildings and spaces beneath boulders, where the bats gather in small groups. The bats are nocturnal, and pregnant females have been caught from February to September. The IUCN Red List classes it as Least Concern.