Trachops cirrhosus
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The fringe-lipped bat (Trachops cirrhosus) is a leaf-nosed bat from southern Mexico to Bolivia and southern Brazil. It has three subspecies and no known fossils. It is the only species within its genus. The fringe-lipped bat has wart-like bumps on its lips and muzzle, which give it its name. The bat has an overall color of a reddish brown with gray on its belly. The fur is long and woolly. It is medium in size, about 32 grams.
The tail is short. It has a nose-leaf with serrated edges. It has two pairs of lower incisors with three pairs of lower premolars. The molars have tubercular depressions with w-shaped cusps. The rostrum is shorter than the braincase but equal to the width of the braincase. It has a low wing-aspect ratio and high wing loading.
The fringe-lipped bat generally mates during the dry season in the tropics, usually from January to June. There is no real difference in appearance between the male and the female. It gives birth to one offspring at a time. The young can stay with the parents for a considerable amount of time.
Its preferred habitat is near ponds or streams. It roosts in trees or hollow logs... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soberanía National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a fringe-lipped bat sighting in Soberanía National Park on a given day, based on 8 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 30th most-seen of the 36 mammals we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May–June and October–December
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a fringe-lipped bat in Soberanía National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January–April and July–September, the lowest months.
Between 7 and 10 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most fringe-lipped bat sightings with a recorded time, and about half of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is seen both by day and at night.
Only Soberanía National Park, in our data
Soberanía National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate fringe-lipped bat sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Phyllostomidae
The closest relatives of the fringe-lipped bat that you can see in Soberanía National Park (family Phyllostomidae, New World Leaf-nosed Bats) are Common tent-making Bat (about 10%), Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat (about 10%) and Seba's Short-tailed Bat (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the fringe-lipped bat is recorded against all the mammals logged in Soberanía National Park (8 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.
