Throughout most of its range, the Jamaican fruit bat is numerous.

Jamaican fruit bats are most active at midnight, following that, activity begins to die down.

The maximum longevity for the Jamaican fruit bat is nine years in the wild.

The Jamaican fruit bat will also react to the distress calls of other species and to their own recorded calls.

The Jamaican fruit bat is a frugivore.

When in their roosts, the Jamaican fruit bat has a reproductive system known as "resource defensive polygyny".

Jamaican Fruit Bat, Artibeus jamaicensis is the best explored species.

The Jamaican fruit bat ranges from southern Mexico southward toto northwestern Argentina.

When captured, a Jamaican fruit bat will warn conspecifics with a distress call made of a long series of pulses typically lasting 15 kHz.

Artibeus jamaicensis, the Jamaican fruit bat, and Myiozetetes similis, the Social Flycatcher, feed on the fruit.

The Antillean fruit-eating bat move out from the roost synchronically one hour after sunset and 20 minutes after the Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis).

The cave contains a large, mixed roost of over 10,000 bats between the second and third collapse points, as well as small numbers of the Jamaican fruit bat near the main entrance.

Fruit bats have been recorded carrying fruits weighing of 3-14 g or even as much as 50 g. Jamaican fruit bats relys on sight and smell to find fruit of certain colors and odors.

It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the Jamaican fruit bat, but can be distinguished by its larger size, the presence of faint stripes on the face, and of a third molar tooth on each side of the upper jaw.

The Jamaican, Common or Mexican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) is a fruit eating bat native to Central and South America, as well as the Greater and many of the Lesser Antilles.

Jamaican Fruit Bat, Artibeus jamaicensis is the best explored species.

Artibeus jamaicensis (incl.

Artibeus jamaicensis (Half Moon Caye)

Phylogenetics and phylogeography of the Artibeus jamaicensis complex based on cytochrome-b DNA sequences.

Jorge Ortega, Iván Castro-Arellano (2001): Artibeus jamaicensis.

The Antillean fruit-eating bat move out from the roost synchronically one hour after sunset and 20 minutes after the Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis).

The caves contain a major bat roost that hosts 12 or so species including Mormoops blainvillii, Pteronotus parnellii, Glossophaga soricina, Artibeus jamaicensis and Ariteus flavescens.

The Jamaican, Common or Mexican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) is a fruit eating bat native to Central and South America, as well as the Greater and many of the Lesser Antilles.