Scientists have discovered a new species of bamboo-dwelling bat named <\/span>Glischropus meghalayanus<\/i><\/b> in Ri Bhoi district of Meghalaya.<\/span><\/p>\n Note: <\/b>Bamboo-dwelling bats are a particular kind of bats living in the internodes of bamboos with specialized morphological characteristics that help them to adapt to the life inside a bamboo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It is a bamboo-dwelling thick-thumbed bat species found near the forested patch of <\/span>Nongkhyllem Wildlife Sanctuary.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n The species i<\/span>s small in size and has a dark brown colour with a sulphur-yellow belly.<\/span><\/p>\n Significance<\/b>: This discovery is the first report of a thick-thumbed bat not only from India but also from South Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n Note:<\/b> Thick-thumbed bats of the genus Glischropus are currently composed of four recognized species from Southeast Asia, two of which were described in recent times.<\/span><\/p>\n In the past few years, three bamboo-dwelling bats have been reported from the area which highlights the ecological significance of the region.<\/span><\/p>\n For instance, from the same forested patches outside Nongkhyllem Wildlife Sanctuary, another species of a disk-footed bat \u201cEudiscopus denticulus\u201d was discovered recently.<\/span><\/p>\n With this new discovery, the total number of bat species known from India stands at 131.\u00a0<\/span>Meghalaya has the highest bat diversity in the country with 67 species, which is about 51% of the total bat species in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n The unique caves in Meghalaya provided roosting opportunities for a large number of bats. For instance, there are a number of cave-dwelling bats species from Meghalaya, the most common being the Horseshoe bat and Leaf-nosed bats.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cNew species of bamboo-dwelling bat found in Meghalaya\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>The Hindu <\/b>on 16th June 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? Scientists have discovered a new species of bamboo-dwelling bat named Glischropus meghalayanus in Ri Bhoi district of Meghalaya. Note: Bamboo-dwelling bats are a particular kind of bats living in the internodes of bamboos with specialized morphological characteristics that help them to adapt to the life inside a bamboo.\u00a0 About Glischropus Meghalayanus… Continue reading New species of bamboo-dwelling bat found in Meghalaya<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"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":[10498],"class_list":["post-191558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191558","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\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About Glischropus Meghalayanus<\/b><\/h5>\n
What were the recent discoveries in Meghalaya?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Bamboo Bat Species in India<\/b><\/h5>\n