Urban development remodels the natural landscape and reconfigures local faunal communities. This study investigated for the first time the composition of bats in the city of Palmas, a rapidly growing urban centre in the state of Tocantins, Brazil. We recorded twenty-three species of bats, most of them frugivorous, and we try to launch light on a large colony of urban insectivorous bats. This bat colony contained an estimated one million broad-eared bats (Nyctinomops laticaudatus), and resided under the Fernando Henrique Cardoso Bridge of Friendship and National Integration, over the Tocantins River, between April and the beginning of October. This site has been certified as a Site of Special Importance for Bat Conservation by the Latin American and Caribbean Bat Conservation Network. The protection of the city’s bats in general, and the bridge colony, in particular, will depend on efforts to raise the awareness of state and municipal authorities, programmes of environmental education and even the exploitation of the potential for local tourism.

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成千上万的蝙蝠：巴西中部帕尔马斯市的手足类动物群的肖像

城市发展重塑了自然景观并重新配置了当地的动物群落。这项研究首次调查了巴西托坎廷斯州快速发展的城市中心帕尔马斯市的蝙蝠组成。我们记录了 23 种蝙蝠，其中大部分是食果蝙蝠，我们尝试向一大群城市食虫蝙蝠发射光线。这个蝙蝠群中估计有 100 万只宽耳蝙蝠（Nyctinomops laticaudatus)，并于 4 月至 10 月初居住在托坎廷斯河上的 Fernando Henrique Cardoso 友谊与民族融合桥下。该站点已被拉丁美洲和加勒比蝙蝠保护网络认证为蝙蝠保护特别重要的站点。城市蝙蝠的保护，尤其是桥梁群落，将取决于提高州和市政当局意识的努力、环境教育计划，甚至是对当地旅游潜力的开发。