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

Congratulations to the team lead by Sebastien Peuchmaille on their recent publication in Nature Communications. The team from seven countries and ten institutions explored acoustic and genetic divergence in populations of the bumblebee bat (Crasionycteris thonglongyai) and the study m

I am happy to say that our recent publication on the insights into social organization and genetic that can be gained from combining spatially explicit capture data with microsatellite analysis of genetic structure is now available online. The study was conducted at Krau Wildlife Rese

Borneo’s rainforests are renowned for their high levels of biodiversity, including >93 species of bat, but are facing unprecedented levels of conversion.  In a bid to safeguard Borneo’s biodiversity the governments of Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia recently signed a declaration to

Whilst DNA barcoding is currently popular in bat studies, basic analyses of morphological characters of Malaysian bats, recently done by the UNIMAS team, still appears to be useful in providing important data on geographic variation and, even occurrence of potential cryptic species. T

The ranks of Murina are swelling! Since Nancy Simmon’s review of 2005, 8 additional Southeast Asian species have been described, and now another three species join the ranks.  Gabor Csorba, Nguyen Truong Son, Ith Saveng and Neil Furey examined specimens from Cambodia and Vietnam

From Danielle Brigida The Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leaders (EWCL) Bat Team is excited to be working over the course of the next year and a half to facilitate the development of standards on bat guano harvesting in Southeast Asia that will help reduce the impact of harvesting on