Gray Short-tailed Bat

Gray Short-tailed BatThe gray short-tailed bat is a small bat recorded in the dry-forest region of northwestern Nicaragua. A local field survey found both males and females in March.What does it look like?The Cosigüina Peninsula paper describes this species as smaller than its congener Carollia perspicillata. Mean body mass of the collected specimens was 14.4 g for males and 13.2 g for females.How does it live?The gray short-tailed bat is a small bat recorded in the dry-forest region of northwestern Nicaragua. A local field survey found both males and females in March.The Nicaraguan survey collected 11 bats from 2 to 6 March. One female was carrying a young bat when caught; a different female gave birth to one young in a holding bag after capture.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.