Proboscis bat

[3] It usually lives around wetlands and is frequently found in riparian forests, pastures swamps, and all near water.

The bats are nocturnal, sleeping during the day in an unusual formation: most of them line up, one after another, on a branch or wooden beam, nose to tail, in a straight row.

A colony of proboscis bats usually has a regular feeding area, typically a small patch of water.

Here the bats catch insects (in the form of midges [including chironomids], mosquitoes, beetles, and caddisflies)[7][8] using echolocation.

This small species of bat has been found to occasionally fall prey to the large spider Argiope savignyi.

Individual proboscis bat
Close-up of a proboscis bat
Group on a tree along the Frio River , Costa Rica. The two on the lower left are carrying babies (dark colored)