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Rabies in humans has declined ten-fold in Thailand in the last twenty years because of the use of vaccines in the treatment of dog bites. So awareness about rabies, at least in dogs, must be high. It is disappointing therefore that the recent paper by Robertson et al in PLoS Neglected

We’ve got some happy news from Malaysia to help celebrate the Year of the Bat! We’re very pleased to announce that the state government of Terengganu in Peninsular Malaysia has just agreed to protect flying foxes! Under Peninsular Malaysia’s Wildlife Conservation Act

A recent study on the zoogeography of fruit bats (family Pteropodidae), insectivorous bats, and rats (order Rodentia: family Muridae) in Indonesia is published by Ibnu Maryanto and Seigo Higashi in Treubia. The researchers analyze biogeographic patterns of the three most specious mamm

The species list for Cambodia continues to climb! Recent surveys and morphological reviews of collections have added five new records, bringing the current count to 66 species. The new records are of Macroglossus minimus, Pipistrellus paterculus, P. javanicus, Hypsugo cadornae and Min

As many of us have found, the Hipposideridae can be a complicated, if not irritating family to work with, and the molecular phylogeny from Susan Murray and colleagues just published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution reveals the extent of paraphyly and polyphyly within many curr

The Cambodian bat fauna is one of the least well-known in the region, as is evidenced by the addition of seven new species to the country’s list in a recent publication from Ith Saveng and colleagues.  The authors reviewed specimens collected from around the country over the last 11 y