Animals on the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
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Costa Rica is home to 200 species of mammals - half of which can fly.
Over a 100 different species of Bats live in Costa Rica. They
play a very important role for the nature because they disperse seeds
and many plants depend completely on bats as their only pollinators.
During the day, the lunarphobic animals are slumbering in hollow trees, under palm
leaves, wooden roofs or in their favourite jeans jacket in our house.
Soon after sunset they start swooping around trees and homes catching
huge quantities of mosquitoes and other insects or feed on fruits and nectar.
There are even two white colored bat species living in Costa Rica: the tiny Carribean White Bat and the much larger and rare Ghost Bat seen on the right picture.