Thursday 26 December 2013

Beautiful Striped Bat

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Scientists have uncovered a rare, brilliantly-striped bat in South Sudan that has yielded new secrets after close study. Working in Bangangai Game Reserve during July of last year, biologist DeeAnn Redeer and conservationist Adrian Garsdie came across an unmissable bat, which has been dubbed by various media outlets as the 'badger bat' and the 'panda bat.'

After collecting a specimen, Reeder took the bat back to the U.S. and confirmed that it belongs to a species that was discovered over seventy years ago in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1939.

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