Fringe-lipped bat

The fringe-lipped bat (Trachops cirrhosus) is a medium-sized leaf-nosed bat found from southern Mexico to Bolivia and southern Brazil. It is the only species in its genus, has three subspecies and no known fossils. Its name comes from the wart-like bumps on its lips and muzzle. It has long, woolly reddish brown fur with grey on the belly, a short tail, a nose-leaf with serrated edges and weighs about 32 grams. It prefers habitat near ponds or streams in tropical dry and moist forests and roosts in trees or hollow logs and sometimes in caves, in groups of up to 50 individuals of both sexes. It is an opportunistic foliage-gleaning omnivore that eats mainly insects with some lizards, frogs, fruits and seeds, and it hunts frogs by following their calls as well as by echolocation. Its conservation status is least concern, because its populations are stable.