Diet of Tonatia bidens (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) in an Atlantic Forest area, southeastern Brazil: first evidence for frugivory
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Saulo Felix
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Renan de França Souza
Abstract
The greater round-eared bat Tonatia bidens has a varied diet, consuming mostly insects, although it also feeds on small terrestrial vertebrates, such as rodents and birds. In 2008–2009, we expanded the knowledge of this species’ feeding ecology by analyzing the diet of a T. bidens population in an Atlantic Forest fragment in southeastern Brazil. Food remains found in day shelters and feeding roosts included insects, birds, mammals and fruits. Insects, Lepidoptera, Blattodea, Coleoptera and Orthoptera, were the main component of the diet. There was a preferential consumption of the soft parts of insects and vertebrates, possibly because these parts are more easily digested and are the most nutritious. This first evidence of fruit consumption is also discussed. This analysis indicates that T. bidens has a more general diet than previously reported.
We are grateful to André Costa Siqueira, Camila Sant’Anna, Danillo Delgado, Flávio Augusto Pereira Mello, Mariana Vieira Pinto Aguiar and Raphael Silvares Lopes for valuable help in the field and critiques of this work. We thank Milena Felix de Almeida, Luis Fernando Marques Dorvillé, Marcelo Guerra Santos and Ildemar Ferreira for the taxonomic identification of the food remains. We are also grateful to Mariana Pacheco, Victor Dominato and Travis Outten for help in the translation of the article and to Fernando Fernandez for his review of the manuscript. We thank Zootech for their sponsorship and to FAPERJ for their funding and scholarship of the program PROCIÊNCIA.
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- Habitat-population density relationship for the white-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus during the dry season in a Pacific Mexican tropical dry forest
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- An escaped herd of Iberian wild goat (Capra pyrenaica, Schinz 1838, Bovidae) begins the re-colonization of the Pyrenees
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- Molecular phylogeny of brush-tailed mice of the genus Calomyscus (Rodentia: Calomyscidae) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences (Cox1 gene)
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