What a funky new bat http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/pp-sla040913.php
jon
Striped like a Skunk – new genus of bat identified in South Sudan
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See the story here – it isn’t a new species but one last caught in 1939 http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0410-hance-bat-genus.html Jon
That is an amazing bat. We caught a Glauconycteris in Minziro forest in the north-west of Tanzania (on the border with Uganda) a number of years ago which was a similar pie-bald colour, but nothing as spectacular as this. The number of species on the South Sudan ‘to get’ list is rapidly increasing…..
Charles