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This is a fascinating paper in which the presence of bones of forest-interior bat species (mainly small Hipposideros species) in the archaeological record of the Great Cave of Niah, Sarawak, is used to provide evidence for late Pleistocene closed-canopy forest cover in NW Borneo. Over

A recently published article in Science Reports entitled “Counting in the dark: Non-intrusive laser scanning for population counting and indentifying roosting bats” demonstrates a method for using innovative and less intrusive technology to survey bat populations in caves.

Information of small mammal diversity in Kelantan is still scarce, but a recent survey of small mammals was conducted in Gunung Stong State Park. Trapping with standard mist nets and harp traps generated five new distributional records of bats in Gunung Stong State Park and a first re

A new Pteropodidae species was recently described from southwestern Sulawesi, Indonesia, by SEABCRU members, Dr. Ibnu Maryanto and Mr. Sigit Wiantoro, and their colleagues in Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense. Thoopterus suhaniahae, a median-sized fruit bat, was formerly regarded as a vari

A mini one-night workshop was host by University of Lampung (UNILA) and conducted by Bukit Barisan Selatan Bat Research Team (BBSBRT) in Way Heni of southwestern Sumatra on July 14 2012. The aim of this workshop is to introduce bats to the local community of Bukit Barisan Selatan (BBS

A recent paper on diets of cave-dwelling insectivorous bats of Indonesia was published by Fahama et al. in Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation. The researchers identified the use of insects by 11 bat species from 12 Karst caves in south Gomong area of Central Java. The result