GUWAHATI: Researchers have hypothesized that rare Eudiscopus populations of the bat from Vietnam and Meghalaya may have a very recent common origin and speculated that Eudiscopus populations might have spread with the expansion of bamboo forests in South East Asia.
A team of scientists led by Dr Uttam Saikia of Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Shillong and scientists from a few European natural history museums have reported a very specialized bamboo dwelling bat species from the Lailad area adjacent to Nongkhyllem Wildlife Sanctuary in Meghalaya recently.
The bat species Eudiscopus denticulus, aptly called disk-footed bat, is very distinctive in appearance with prominent disk-like pads in the thumb and bright orange colouration.
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