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Classification |
Common Name |
Diet |
Status |
Distribution |
| Family: Phyllostomidae |
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| Subfamily: Phyllonycterinae |
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| Erophylla sezekorni syops |
Buffy Flower Bat |
Pollen-eater |
Very Rare |
Cayman Brac, Grand Cayman, Jamaica |
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Buffy
Flower Bat (Erophylla
sezekorni) eats pollen, nectar and occasionally
small insects. It lives only in Jamaica, Grand Cayman
and Cayman Brac. It has a long nose and a long sticky
tongue. This amazing little bat
pollinates night-blooming jasmine and all the beautiful
column cactus and agave plants that grow on the Bluff
on Cayman Brac. These bats live only in caves and are
known to be highly intolerant of human disturbance,
thus should never be disturbed in their caves.
Very
Rare |
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