Hipposideros speoris
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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
Schneider's leaf-nosed bat or Schneider's roundleaf bat (Hipposideros speoris) is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae. It is endemic to South Asia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, caves, and urban areas.
It was named after Johann Gottlob Schneider, a German classicist and naturalist who first observed it in 1800. This species is a small bat. The bat has three additional leaflets on its leaf-nose, with the outer one being smaller than the other two, and the well-developed lappets next to the nostrils are the external characteristics differentiating this species from other species in the genus Hipposideros. A frontal sac is also present above the leaf-nose. H. speoris varies in color from gray to orange-brown, with it being the palest between the shoulders and on the ventral side, and darker on the flanks and the posterior side. It possesses a tiny baculum, which is just 0.57 mm in length, with a blunt tip and slightly expanded base.
The bat has a gestation period of 135–140 days, after which a single young is born. The eyes of newborns are closed and the ears are folded laterally... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Minneriya National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Schneider's roundleaf bat sighting in Minneriya National Park on a given day, based on 12 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 14th most-seen of the 18 mammals we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January and March
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Schneider's roundleaf bat in Minneriya National Park on a given day, against under 5% in May to December, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Schneider's roundleaf bat sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Minneriya National Park, in our data
Minneriya National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Schneider's roundleaf bat sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Schneider's roundleaf bat is recorded against all the mammals logged in Minneriya National Park (12 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
