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Wrinkle-Faced Bat. By: Sophia. The wrinkle-faced bat is a small brownish bat. It has white spots on its shoulders. It has a short muzzle and the top of its head is raised. The wrinkle-faced bat has a naked, short, wide face and it’s covered with extra skin that sticks out as wrinkled folds.
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Wrinkle-Faced Bat By: Sophia
The wrinkle-faced bat is a small brownish bat. It has white spots on its shoulders. It has a short muzzle and the top of its head is raised. The wrinkle-faced bat has a naked, short, wide face and it’s covered with extra skin that sticks out as wrinkled folds. What does it look like?
Where is it found? Most of the wrinkle-faced bats live in Central America and South America. What does it eat? The wrinkle-faced bat eats bananas and pawpaws.
The Bat “Fact-ory” • When wrinkle-faced bats have babies most of the babies weigh half the size of their mother. • Wrinkle-faced bats only grow to just 2.5 inches. • Wrinkle-faced bats’ wing span is about 9 inches. • When roosting, the wrinkle-faced bat hangs under the leaves of a Mango tree. • They roost alone or in twos and threes. • They never will have more then 12 bats in a tree.
Bibliography Gerholdt, Pamela J. Wrinkle-Faced Bats. ABDO & Daughters,1996
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