Giant Eland

Big-eared Climbing Rat (Ototylomys phyllotis)

Playa Del Carmen- Feb 2022
@ralph that’s awesome!! Great species! Did you keep a list of the wild mammals you saw there? Anything interesting at the zoo?
 
@Giant Eland It's a pretty short list unfortunately.
A few bats I can't ID, some rodents and howler monkeys.

We saw very little on the night walks we did. No sloths, no armadillos, no porcupines, no skunks, no possums. Not even a single snake.

Nicaragua was great for birds, but we had little luck regarding anything else.
 
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I've seen some fruit bats in flight which will be impossible to ID (Las Penitas, near Léon)
Noctilionoid Bats from Las Peñitas, Nicaragua on November 4, 2024 at 06:40 PM by ralphaba. Multiple bats seen flying in and out of a fruiting tree · iNaturalist

Some bats in a cave behind a waterfall (Matagalpa). Most likely Carollia perspicillata but not sure.
Seba's Short-tailed Bat from Matagalpa, Nicaragua on November 11, 2024 at 11:23 AM by ralphaba. Seen in the caves at the Cascada Santa Emilia. Not sure if they are all this species or if there ... · iNaturalist

More bats, this time in the museum on the Masaya Volcano. Probably Carollia perspicillata again, but also not sure
Seba's Short-tailed Bat from Nindirí, Nicaragua on November 19, 2024 at 01:19 PM by ralphaba · iNaturalist

This bat was inside my cabin in the Mombacho lodge, but our host evicted it before I could get a good photo. It was later hanging on the outside of the 'windows' but heavy rains prevented me from taking a photo from the other side. It did have the curly lines on the back that are present on Rhynchonycteris naso and Saccopteryx
Diclidurini from Granada, Nicaragua on November 16, 2024 at 03:14 PM by ralphaba · iNaturalist

Then there's this rodent which belongs to the Proechimys genus (not sure if possible to ID to species level) near Lake Apoyo
Proechimys from La Laguna, Nicaragua on November 12, 2024 at 05:33 PM by ralphaba · iNaturalist

And just for fun, here's my photo of the big-eared climbing rat :) (Mombacho)
Big-eared Climbing Rat from Granada, Nicaragua on November 17, 2024 at 08:18 PM by ralphaba · iNaturalist
 

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