Big-eared woolly bat

The big-eared woolly bat, Chrotopterus auritus, also called Peters's woolly false vampire bat, is a very large predatory bat of the family Phyllostomidae and the second largest bat species of the Neotropics. Body mass is typically 75 to 96 grams and the forearm measures 79 to 83 millimetres. The genus name comes from Greek roots for skin or color and wing, and the epithet auritus refers to the large ears. It lives in warm subtropical forests from southern Mexico through northeastern South America as far south as northern Argentina, roosting in caves and hollow logs. It feeds mainly on small arthropods and small vertebrates such as beetles, moths, opossums, rodents, birds, geckos and even other bats, eating its prey at the roost. Colonies are small, of one to seven individuals, and a female bears a single, relatively large pup after a gestation of more than 100 days.