They roost in trees and bushes and are quite alert by day. Their diet consists of the juice and softer parts of such fruits as guavas, bananas, and figs. Suction, rather than mastication, appears to be the major process in feeding. Epauleted bats are not gregarious, usually resting alone or in groups of two or three. These sequences are timed so that births occur at or shortly after the beginning of the two rainy seasons.
Gestation lasts five to six months.
Both periods seem to be timed so that lactation coincides with the area's two rainy seasons, when fruit availability is at a maximum. Each parturition period is followed by a postpartum estrus and apparently by immediate embryonic development. Young females can mate at an age of 6 months and give birth at 12 months. Males are sexually mature at 11 months. The Johns Hopkins University Press.