The 18th and 19th centuries’ Sri Lanka saw many British naturalists studying the island’s rich biodiversity. They also contributed to profiling the same. One of them, W.W.A. Phillips, a tea planter who was particularly interested in mammals, published the Manual of the Mammals of Sri Lanka in 1932. One of the chapters in the book […]
COLOMBO During the 18th and 19th centuries when Sri Lanka was a British colony, many British naturalists studied the island’s rich biodiversity and contributed to profiling the same. Tea planter W.W.A. Phillips was one of them, a man who was particularly interested in mammals, and eventually published the “Manual of the Mammals of Sri […]
With the find, the total number of bat species in India rises to 131, of which 67 are from the northeastern state of Meghalaya, which has the greatest bat. 15.06.2022, Sputnik International
GUWAHATI: Researchers have hypothesized that rare Eudiscopus populations of the bat from Vietnam and Meghalaya may have a very recent common origin and speculated that Eudiscopus populations might have spread with the expansion of bamboo forests in South East Asia.
A team of scientists led by Dr Uttam Saikia of Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Shillong and scientists from a few European natural history museums have reported a very specialized bamboo dwelling bat species from the Lailad area adjacent to Nongkhyllem Wildlife Sanctuary in Meghalaya recently.
The bat species Eudiscopus denticulus, aptly called disk-footed bat, is very distinctive in appearance with prominent disk-like pads in the thumb and bright orange colouration.