Two Sleeping Visitors in the Mamón

Omar Enrique Berdugo Cabeza was walking alone among the bird feeding stations when something stopped him: on the trunk of a mamón tree, clinging tightly to a crack in the bark, two bats were sleeping. The camouflage was nearly perfect — their muted browns and grays melted into the dry wood, as if the tree itself had drawn them in for the day. It was Omar's trained eye that found them, still and undisturbed, indifferent to the three o'clock heat. Shortly after, Maico came through with his group, who were doing a birdwatching circuit in the same area. Omar called them over and showed them the find. The mamón, already a gathering point for both the free-flying and rehabilitated birds of the Fundación, turned out to be a refuge as well for these small winged mammals that sleep while the rest of the forest stirs. Two photos and two videos remain as witnesses.