Underwood's Mastiff Bat is a large free-tailed bat of the Sonoran Desert borderlands, rarely encountered and known primarily from a handful of records in southern Arizona and Mexico. Like the western mastiff bat, it requires a high drop point—cliff or building—to gain flight speed. Its massive ears, joined at the base, sweep forward over the head when the bat is at rest.
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