Brand New Species of Bat Discovered

Exotic Animal Newsflash:

It was reported on Monday that a new species of fruit bat or flying fox has been discovered on Midoro Island south of Manila in the Philippines.

The bat is orange in color with distinctive white striping on it’s face. For this reason, it is being dubbed the “Midoro Stripe-Faced Fruitbat”.

(Photo above: Costa Rican Bat, with white striped face)

Researchers, jointly working from the University of Kansas’ Biodiversity Research Center and the Comparative Biogeography and Conservation of Philippine Vertebrates (CBCPV), accidentally discovered this new species when it was caught in a net that was set for surveying mammals, reptiles and amphibians in the area.

Specifically, this bat was found on the west coast of the island in in Sablayan region in a protected wildlife area.

This is the 26th unique bat species found in the Philippines, and one of the 74 total species that inhabit the country.

To read more on this story: New bat species discovered in Philippines

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