{"id":102301,"date":"2021-04-19T15:49:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T10:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=102301"},"modified":"2021-04-20T15:14:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T09:44:24","slug":"disc-footed-bat-with-sticky-disks-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/disc-footed-bat-with-sticky-disks-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghalaya Records India\u2019s First &#8220;Disc Footed Bat&#8221; with Sticky Disks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><strong>What is the News?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Researchers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/zoological-survey-of-india\/\">Zoological Survey of India<\/a>(ZSI) discovers India\u2019s first disc footed bat with sticky nodes, near the Nongkhyllem Wildlife Sanctuary in Meghalaya. This location is about 1,000 km west of its nearest habitat in Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Also Read &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/important-current-affairs-for-upsc-ias-prelims-2021\/biodiversity-and-conservation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Other Species in News for Prelims, 2021<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong>About Disc Footed Bat:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>This bat(Eudiscopus denticulus) <\/strong>is a bat species that is very different. It has a flat skull, prominent disk-like pads in the thumb, and bright orange colouration.<\/li>\n<li>This bat rests<strong>\u00a0inside bamboo internodes.<\/strong> Their sticky disks and flattened skull help them in this.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat<\/strong>: So far, this species only thrive in a few localities in Southern China, Vietnam, Thailand, and Myanmar.<\/li>\n<li>The disc-footed bat is<strong>\u00a0genetically very different <\/strong>from all other bats bearing disc-like pads.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Significance of this discovery:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Firstly, the disc footed <\/strong>has raised Meghalaya\u2019s bat count to 66, the most for any State in India.<\/li>\n<li><b>Secondly<\/b>, it has also helped add a genus and species to the bat fauna of India taking the species count of the flying mammal in the country to 130.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=G688GE11M.1&amp;imageview=0\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"9oAehBRNhI\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kolar-leaf-nosed-bat\/\">Kolar Leaf Nosed Bat<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Kolar Leaf Nosed Bat&#8221; &#8212; Free UPSC IAS Preparation For Aspirants\" src=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kolar-leaf-nosed-bat\/embed\/#?secret=kOmwpUk1Tp#?secret=9oAehBRNhI\" data-secret=\"9oAehBRNhI\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News?\u00a0 Researchers from the Zoological Survey of India(ZSI) discovers India\u2019s first disc footed bat with sticky nodes, near the Nongkhyllem Wildlife Sanctuary in Meghalaya. This location is about 1,000 km west of its nearest habitat in Myanmar. Also Read &#8211; Other Species in News for Prelims, 2021 About Disc Footed Bat: This&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/disc-footed-bat-with-sticky-disks-discovered\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meghalaya Records India\u2019s First &#8220;Disc Footed Bat&#8221; with Sticky Disks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[1316],"class_list":["post-102301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-env_2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704851805},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}