Brock's Yellow-eared Bat
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Brock's yellow-eared bat (''Vampyriscus brocki'') is a species of
bat Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera (). With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most birds, flying with their very long spread-out ...
in the family Phyllostomidae, the leaf-nosed bats. It is native to
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. Pacheco, D. C. R., & Pacheco, V. (2015)
Taxonomía y distribución de ''Vampyriscus brocki'' Peterson, 1968 (Phyllostomidae: Chiroptera) en Perú y primer registro para Ucayali.
''Therya'', 6(3), 625-642.
This bat lives in evergreen forest. It eats mostly fruit. It breeds during the rainy season.


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Bats of South America Mammals of Colombia Mammals of Guyana Phyllostomidae Mammals described in 1968 {{leafnosed-bat-stub