Pale spear-nosed bat

The pale spear-nosed bat, Phyllostomus discolor, is a fairly robust phyllostomid bat found from southern Mexico through Central America to northern Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and southeastern Brazil. Adults are roughly 8 to 11 centimetres long with a wingspan near 42 centimetres, and the fur ranges from pale yellowish brown to nearly black, with a much paler chest and belly. The nose-leaf carries a long spear-like projection, and males have a glandular sac in the throat used to scent-mark their roosts. The bats are nocturnal, roosting by day in hollow trees or cave mouths in colonies of up to 400, subdivided into male groups or harems of one breeding male and up to fifteen females. They are omnivores that take nectar, pollen and flowers as well as insects, and they visit flowers in single file, making them useful pollinators. Their vocal repertoire is unusually complex, with up to twenty different calls.