Davy's Naked-backed Bat
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P. d. davyi |
The Davy's Naked-backed Bat, Pteronotus davyi, is a small insect-eating, cave-dwelling bat and is found throughout South and Central America, including Trinidad, but not Tobago. Its wings are attached to the top of its body instead of to the sides, as in all other bat species. Specimens of this bat have been found infected with rabies in Trinidad.[3]
It has been reported as one of three bat species observed being eaten by the Giant centipede in a cave in Venezuela, which hangs on the roofs of the caves and literally grabs the bats out of the air, killing them with its sting and then eating them.[4] The other two species of bats observed being eaten by Giant Centipedes were Mormoops megalophylla and Leptonycteris curasoae.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Chiroptera Specialist Group (1996). Pteronotus davyi. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2007. Retrieved on 09 June 2008.
- ^ http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13801483
- ^ Greenhall, Arthur M. 1961. Bats in Agriculture. A Ministry of Agriculture Publication. Trinidad and Tobago.
- ^ [1] "Predation by Giant Centipedes, Scolopendra gigantea, on Three Species of Bats in a Venezuelan Cave." Molinari, Jesús, et al. 2005.Caribbean Journal of Science, Vol. 41, No. 2. 340-346.
