Chestnut Short-tailed Bat

Chestnut Short-tailed BatThe chestnut short-tailed bat is a nocturnal fruit-eating bat. In a study, it relied on the scent of ripe Piper fruit when foraging and used more echolocation when that scent was absent.What does it look like?It is a short-tailed fruit bat. The paper identifies Carollia castanea as the chestnut short-tailed fruit bat.How does it live?The chestnut short-tailed bat is a nocturnal fruit-eating bat. In a study, it relied on the scent of ripe Piper fruit when foraging and used more echolocation when that scent was absent.It feeds mainly on Piper fruit. In the study, ripe-fruit scent guided foraging, while bats made longer and more frequent echolocation calls when that scent was absent.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.