{"id":211927,"date":"2022-10-27T19:35:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T14:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=211927"},"modified":"2022-10-27T19:35:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T14:05:20","slug":"bats-evicted-from-prehistoric-manipur-cave-for-tourism-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bats-evicted-from-prehistoric-manipur-cave-for-tourism-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Bats evicted from prehistoric Manipur cave for tourism: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cBats evicted from prehistoric Manipur cave for tourism: Study\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 27th October 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a study by researchers, a colony of bats were evicted from Khangkhui cave in Manipur to make it tourist-friendly.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>About Khangkhui Cave<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Khangkhui is a natural limestone cave about 15 km from Ukhrul, the headquarters of Ukhrul district in Manipur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Excavations carried out by Manipur\u2019s archaeologists had revealed the cave was home to Stone Age communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cave was also used as a shelter by the local people during World War 2 after the Japanese forces advanced to Manipur and the adjoining Nagaland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>About the study<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Khangkhui Cave housed large populations of bats belonging to the Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, these bats were killed and evicted from the Khangkhui cave after 2016-17 purportedly to make it \u201cmore tourist-friendly\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the divisional Forest Officer of the area denied any such killing of bats.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cBats evicted from prehistoric Manipur cave for tourism: Study\u201d published in The Hindu on 27th October 2022 What is the News? According to a study by researchers, a colony of bats were evicted from Khangkhui cave in Manipur to make it tourist-friendly. About Khangkhui Cave Khangkhui is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bats-evicted-from-prehistoric-manipur-cave-for-tourism-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bats evicted from prehistoric Manipur cave for tourism: Study<\/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-211927","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\/211927","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=211927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}