Bat identification, Mexico?
I’ve got a couple of good photos of bats from Mayan ruins in Mexico (trying to be both very quiet and only briefly using light to try not disturb them), but I haven’t the skill or resources to identify them. I don’t suppose anyone is able to help, or would know the most likely candidates for the area? Oh, and a bonus less-good photo of unidentified (fruit?) bats hanging among the stalagtites in a very cool cave cenote in Quintana Roo! Many thanks! Matt & Maureen.
Palenque ruins, Chiapas state, Mexico
Tikal ruins, Peten state, Guatemala
Cenote Nohoch Nah Chich, Quintana Roo – very cool experience, snorkelling into these caves, bats flying around
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shortclaws
Wow! Thanks for the swift reply Jon (and Juan!). We spent four weeks, Feb 6 -> Mar 6, touring the Yucatan including a crossing of Guatemala just to visit Tikal and then a week in Belize before ending up back in Quintana Roo. This was (almost) entirely a holiday, though, lots of ruins and cenotes and tacos. I’m writing up what mammals we saw, and the 3 days at Lamanai Lodge in Belize (our only proper bit of mammal-hunting) as a short trip report.
Anyway, sounds like if we had only known we might have been able to meet up for a margarita!
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Jon Hall
Hi Matt – I just checked with Juan Cruzado who knows the bats as well as anyone. They are (in order) Micronycteris microtis, a Peropteryx species (greater or lesser) and artibeus jamaicensis. I just got back from Quintana Roo – when were you there?