Bulldog bat

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(Zo'94l.) a bat of the genus Nyctinomus; - so called from the shape of its face.

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Researchers have crowned the greater bulldog bat the loudest known flying animal.
Right, Komodos feast on a buffalo SWOOP TO CONQUER Bulldog bat goes late-night fishing
Researchers have crowned the greater bulldog bat the loudest known flying animal; it can shriek 100 times louder than a rock concert.
Fishing and echolocation behavior of the greater bulldog bat, Noctilio leporinus, in the field.
Just reading some of their names gives you an idea of the visual variety: long-nosed bat, short-nosed bat, spear-nosed bat, ghost-faced bat, mustache bat, horseshoe bat, hammer-headed bat, bulldog bat, leaf-chinned bat and slit-faced bat.
Davis' (1976) distribution map shows the lesser bulldog bat present on the Pacific versant of Central America from near Rivas, Nicaragua southward.
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