Seed Dispersal

A Seba's short-tailed bat (Carollia perspicillata) eating a piper fruit (Piper tuberculatum) in Costa Rica. Just one of these bats can carry up to 60,000 seeds to new locations in a single night. And if even a tenth of one percent survive to become seedlings, this one bat will have produced 11,000 new seedlings in a single year. Seed Dispersal

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A Seba's short-tailed bat (Carollia perspicillata) eating a piper fruit (Piper tuberculatum) in Costa Rica. Just one of these bats can carry up to 60,000 seeds to new locations in a single night. And if even a tenth of one percent survive to become seedlings, this one bat will have produced 11,000 new seedlings in a single year. Seed Dispersal

1987 Central America Costa Rica Latin America Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation Phyllostomidae Seba's shorttailed fruit bat Carollia perspicillata eating piper fruit Piper tuberculatum favorites box 000 night roost night roosting

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Seed Dispersal