Tent-making bat: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the tent-making bat lives – recorded in 11 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Uroderma bilobatum
Group	Bats
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	11 countries
Continents	North America, South America
Mass	15.4 g (adult weight)
Class	Mammal
Order	Chiroptera
Family	Phyllostomidae

Where does the tent-making bat live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the tent-making bat in 11 countries and territories across North America and South America. Wikidata gives its range as: Belém, Brazil.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a tent-making bat?

Wikidata records the following for the tent-making bat: mass 15.4 g (adult weight).

Is the tent-making bat endangered?

The tent-making bat’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the tent-making bat?

The tent-making bat (Uroderma bilobatum) is a mammal in the order Chiroptera and the family Phyllostomidae, genus Uroderma. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the tent-making bat

The tent-making bat (Uroderma bilobatum) is an American leaf-nosed bat (Phyllostomidae) found in lowland forests of Central and South America. This medium-sized bat has a gray coat with a pale white stripe running down the middle of the back. Its face is characterized by a fleshy nose-leaf and four white stripes. Primarily a frugivore, it may supplement its diet with insects, flower parts, pollen, and nectar. Its common name comes from its behavior of constructing tents out of large, fan-shaped leaves. These roosts provide excellent protection from the tropical rains, and a single tent roost may house several bats at once. This bat's conservation status is listed as Least Concern, as it is quite common in its geographic range.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Tent-making bat (revision 1379256579), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q1499413 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).