Jamaican fruit bat

The Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) is a medium-sized frugivorous bat native to the Neotropics. It ranges from southern Mexico through Central America to northwestern South America and lives throughout the Greater and Lesser Antilles and the southern Bahamas, from sea level to about 2,135 metres. It weighs 40 to 60 grams, has no external tail, and has a prominent noseleaf and an ashy grey or brown back with pale hair bases. It roosts in caves, hollow trees, dense foliage and buildings, and sometimes alters broad leaves into temporary tents. Figs are its main food, but it also eats other fruits, nectar, pollen and a few insects, and so disperses seeds. Males defend roosting territories and harems of females. Throughout most of its range it is numerous and does not appear to be threatened, although it can damage fruit crops.