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Tomes's sword-nosed bat (Lonchorhina aurita) from French Guiana.

Sweet Bat Portraits Dispel Stereotypes of These Incredibly Important Mammals

Photographer: Dr. Merlin Tuttle

Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) in Texas.

A male wrinkle-faced bat (Centurio senex) from Belize. No one has any idea why these bats faces are so strange. The species is probably not rare, but it is seldom caught by biologists studying bats.

A black bonneted bat (Eumops auripendulus) from French Guiana.

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