Caption

Multiple off-camera flashes and an infrared beam that would trip my camera at the sign of movement allowed me to capture this picture of a Pallas' Long-tongued Bat visiting a Calabash tree flower in a rainforest in northern Costa Rica

Date

Jan 14, 2014

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Gregory Basco

Reference

BRK26C62_414

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

60.2Mb (3.2Mb) / 18.7in x 12.5in / 5616 x 3744 (300dpi)

Keywords

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