Bogotá, Colombia is one of the largest cities in South America and as a neotropical city located at 2600 meters elevation, it offers a unique habitat. To explore the bat population, this study is a collaboration between Fundación Reserva Natural La Palmita, Research Center and the Laboratorio de ornitologia y bioacustica from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá Colombia.

Autonomous passive acoustic recorders are gradually being adopted by ecologists for surveying biodiversity around the globe.