Thursday, March 1, 2012

New Bat Species

  • No, there is nothing wrong with this bats nose. According to National Geographic, this is Hipposideros griffini, or a Griffins leaf-nosed bat, a new species of bat that was recently discovered in Vietnam.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • A new species of bat whose face bristles with leaf-like protrusions has been discovered in Vietnam, a new study says.
  • (National Geographic)
  • The discovery in bats is new as the virus is typically found in winged birds, and not winged mammals. Researchers collected 316 bats of 16 different Latin American species.
  • (NHS Choices)
  • TORONTO - Scientists have found a new — though very old — subtype of influenza in an unlikely host: a species of bats from Guatemala.
  • (but very old - influenza strain isolated from Guatemalan bats - Winnipeg Free Press)
  • Newswise — Journal of Mammalogy – A distinctive echolocation frequency led to the discovery of a new species of bat within the genus Hipposideros.
  • (Newswise)
  • New research suggests that we might have missed a key part of their flight process: their tails. In a paper published in PLoS ONE, researchers from the University of Northern Colorado analyzed the flight of five different bat species.
  • (SmartPlanet.com)
  • The current article of the Journal of Mammalogy reports on findings from a survey of bats in Vietnam over a span of three years.
  • (PhysOrg)
  • "The study is important because the research has identified a new animal species that may act as a source of flu viruses.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • The lizard was the third new species in the last two years to be found in Veun Sai, following the discovery of a new type of bat and a gibbon.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • When we did the bird roundup at days end, we were delighted to tally 141 species. Each night, unfailingly, I lay in bed, with bats passing in and out the open windows, thinking, Im sleeping in the jungle and wondering what was going on in the outside world.
  • (Eau Claire Leader-Telegram)

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