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Related: About this forumNew Discovery - Brilliantly Striped South Sudanese Species Dubbed "Panda Bat" - Mongabay
Scientists have uncovered a rare, brilliantly-striped bat in South Sudan that has yielded new secrets after close study. Working in Bangangai Game Reserve during July of last year, biologist DeeAnn Redeer and conservationist Adrian Garsdie with Fauna & Flora International (FFI) came across an unmissable bat, which has been dubbed by various media outlets as the "badger bat" and the "panda bat."
"My attention was immediately drawn to the bat's strikingly beautiful and distinct pattern of spots and stripes. It was clearly a very extraordinary animal, one that I had never seen before," DeeAnn Reeder with Bucknell University says. "I knew the second I saw it that it was the find of a lifetime."
After collecting a specimen, Reeder took the bat back to the U.S. and confirmed that it belongs to a species that was discovered over seventy years ago in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 1939. However, that wasn't the end of the story.
"After careful analysis, it is clear that it doesn't belong in the genus that it's in right now," Reeder explains. "Its cranial characters, its wing characters, its size, the earsliterally everything you look at doesn't fit. It's so unique that we need to create a new genus."
Read more at http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0410-hance-bat-genus.html#hX2GpwrrpOAi6XsZ.99
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New Discovery - Brilliantly Striped South Sudanese Species Dubbed "Panda Bat" - Mongabay (Original Post)
hatrack
Apr 2013
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Laffy Kat
(16,377 posts)1. Wow. Thanks for the photos. How cool is that!
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)2. Cool! Now, how quickly can we drive it to extinction?
I see a huge $$$ opportunity for a new TV game show...
hatrack
(59,584 posts)3. Wait! I've got it - "Extinctathon!"
Oh, darn it, already spoken for . . .
stuntcat
(12,022 posts)6. I know right?
Good luck little cutey!!
eppur_se_muova
(36,261 posts)4. Lucky it wasn't a skunk bat. nt
stuntcat
(12,022 posts)5. Wow it's so beautiful!
I love bats!!
OnlinePoker
(5,719 posts)7. Why not Zebra Bat
It is from Africa after all, not Asia.