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In much of SE Asia, the Kerivoula and Murina forage for insects in dense forest habitats. Using echolocation to detect prey in such “acoustically cluttered” environments is a challenge because of the problems of forward and backward masking. The role of the extremely broad

From Vin Dinh Thong Paracoelops megalotis was only known from the original description of the single holotype. Over the past decades, the species was treated as a monotypic genus endemic to Vietnam, and received much attention from bat specialists worldwide. Particularly, it had appea

Anthony Mould, of the Philippine Spotted Deer Conservation Foundation, recently made an important contribution to our understanding of cave bat populations in the Philippines by publishing data on bat populations recorded from 21 caves on Panay Island in the central Philippines.  In a

From Nurul Islam Bats are the least studied and most neglected mammals in Bangladesh. Most of the people hate bats due to misconceptions and age-old myths. Some peoples treat the bat as only a pest of crops, nuisance and dirty animal. Besides concurrent outbreak of nipah encephalitis

Congratulations to Sigit Wiantoro, Ibnu Maryanto and Mohd Tajuddin b Abdullah on their recent publication in Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science (JTAS). Phylogenetic and phylogeographic analyses clearly indicate that populations of the widespread Myotis muricola either

I thought this video from Australia on roosting behavior of Kerivoula papuensis (should be Phoniscus papuensis) was interesting — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqawKqjxBXk&feature=youtube_gdata. Worth keeping an eye-out for hanging/woven bird-nests as bat roosts where Phoni