ABC DISCOVERS NEW BAT SPECIES FOR MALAWI!! The ABC team blasts into action at our research camp in Liwonde NP - in our first week of standardised trapping grids we have found a new species for Malawi! The beautiful white-bellied house bat (Scotophilus leucogaster). To date only recorded in northern south Africa, southern Mozambique, southern Zimbabwe, and a separate population in Northern Zimbabwe, Central Mozambique, and Southern Zambia. We are now conducting specific studies to find out more about the distribution, roosting and foraging ecology of this species in Malawi. Go ABC, more to come surely. (pictured left to compare size and colour to S. viridis)
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:31:52 +0000