Where can you see the Great Fruit-eating Bat?
Some of the best places to see the Great Fruit-eating Bat in the wild include Dzibilchantún National Park (Mexico), Sierra de Tamaulipas (Mexico) and Anavilhanas National Park (Brazil) — among 12 wildlife hotspots across Brazil, Mexico and Colombia. Every hotspot below shows real sighting data and the best seasons to visit.
Anavilhanas National Park
Brazil
+132 birds+30 mammals
Where the Rio Negro braids into a labyrinth of islands and waterways, one of the Amazon’s most pristine archipelagos unfolds […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKArrecifes de Cozumel National Park
San Miguel de Cozumel, Mexico
+134 birds+21 mammals
Crystalline waters lap against the world’s second-longest coral barrier reef, where vibrant walls of living limestone plunge into the abyss. […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKBrasília National Park
Plano Piloto, Brazil
+122 birds+30 mammals
Where granite escarpments rise above the cerrado grasslands of central Brazil, a vast sanctuary unfolds across 1,077 square kilometres of […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKCabo Orange National Park
Brazil
+29 birds+13 mammals
Where the Amazon’s momentum finally surrenders to the Atlantic, mangrove forests sprawl across tidal flats that stretch 15,115 square kilometers […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKDzibilchantún National Park
Barcelona, Mexico
+97 birds+5 mammals
Cenotes puncture the limestone plateau of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula like sapphire eyes, and this compact 8-square-kilometre park shelters some of […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKIguaçu National Park
Brazil
+133 birds+29 mammals
Where the Paraná Plateau drops away in a thunderous cascade, one of Earth’s most spectacular waterfall systems tears through subtropical […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKNatural Farallones de Cali National Park
Buenaventura, Colombia
+12 birds+26 mammals
Where the western cordillera plunges toward the Pacific, a landscape of dramatic escarpments and misty cloud forest unfolds across nearly […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKParque Nacional Benito Juárez
San Andrés Huayápam, Mexico
+129 birds+30 mammals
Towering pine and fir forests blanket the high plateaus of Oaxaca’s Sierra Madre Oriental, where elevation exceeds 3,600 meters and […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKParque Nacional Grutas de Cacahuamilpa
Pilcaya, Mexico
+141 birds+19 mammals
Where limestone cliffs plunge into shadowed canyons, the Río Río Grande carves its ancient passage through one of Mexico’s most […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARK