Food Habits
Noctilio leporinus catches and consumes fish. It is one of about six bat species that regularly eat fish. It will also eat aquatic crustaceans, stinkbugs, crickets, scarab beetles, moths, winged ants, and other insects, but primarily, it is a piscivore (fish-eater).
Animal Foods: Fish; Insects; Terrestrial Non-insect Arthropods; Aquatic Crustaceans
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Mulheisen, M. and K. Berry. 2000. "Noctilio leporinus" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed September 26, 2010 at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Noctilio_leporinus.html.
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