A team of scientists from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) and a few European natural history museums has found India’s first bamboo-dwelling bat with sticky discs in Meghalaya.
- With this new discovery, the species count of the flying mammal in the country has reached to 130.
- The disc-footed bat has raised Meghalaya’s bat count to 66, the most for any State in India. It has also helped add a genus and species to the bat fauna of India.
- The disc-footed bat (Eudiscopus denticulus) was recorded in Meghalaya’s Lailad area near the Nongkhyllem Wildlife Sanctuary, about 1,000 km west of its nearest known habitat in Myanmar.
- The finding has been published in the latest edition of the Swiss journal, Revue Suisse de Zoologie.
(Source: The Hindu)
