Pallas's Long-tongued Bat

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Pallas's Long-tongued Bat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Phyllostomidae
Genus: Glossophaga
Species: G. soricina
Binomial name
Glossophaga soricina
Pallas, 1766

The Pallas's Long-tongued Bat, Glossophaga soricina, is a South and Central American bat.[1] It has the fastest metabolism ever recorded in a mammal, similar to those of hummingbirds. Although it uses 50% of its stored fat over the course of a day, over 80% of its energy comes directly from the simple sugars that compose its diet of nectar, without being stored in any form.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Infonatura".
  2. ^ C.C. Voigt & J.R. Speakman (2007). "Nectar-feeding bats fuel their high metabolism directly with exogenous carbohydrates". Funct. Ecol. OnlineEarly Articles: 913. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2435.2007.01321.x. 
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