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the darkest folds of bent over
or titer broken banana leaves in
the heavier growths along the
streams that I found bats, The
yellow facial markings of
croderma were very conspicuous
and could be seen nearly as
far as one could see the bat.
These little bats were usually
found asleep. They were hanging
head down, their sharp claws
clinging to the ribs of the banana
leaves. Those seen and taken
were about 4 to 7 feet from the
ground. When awakened they
dropped their heads and even
extended their nose dorsally
above the plane of their back as
they twisted nervously from side
to side. Once I found two
hanging together but unfortunately
one flew away when the other
dropped at the shot from my
H20 shot pistol. Although I
went to the tree or clumps
of trees where I saw the second
bat fly and killed one there
that was awake and disturbed
which proved to be a female
mating the male already taken,
the evidence of a mated pair