| Red Bat (Lasiurus
- subspecies unknown) eats insects. The first Red Bat
seen in the Cayman Islands was photographed hanging alone
in a Sweetwood tree in 1999. The fur exactly matched the
color of the drying brownish-red leaves. Before that it
was unrecorded here and remains extremely rare, with two
more individuals being captured in the Botanic Park in April
of 2000. It
is not known if these bats are recent arrivals, or if they
have always been here. They roost alone in foliage and are
the only bats known to commonly give birth to more than one
pup at a time. New
record, Very Rare. |
