Rwanda: a group of experts has found a specimen of Rhinolophus hilli. They hadn't seen any for 40 years
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himIn Rwanda in Nyungwe National Park, a team of researchers from Bat Conservation International has discovered a species thought to be extinct because it had not been sighted for over 40 years. It is the Rhinolophus hilli or horseshoe bat which owes its name to the singular shape of its nose and mouth.
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Posted by Bat Conservation International on Tuesday, March 8, 2022
This medium-sized bat had been included by the IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature - in the list of endangered species and in fact it was not known if there were still any specimens of this species in the world until the team announced that it would having found a particular bat completely out of the ordinary, confirming that it was precisely the horseshoe genus.
Lost & Found
How do you find a bat species that's been lost for 40 years?
Posted by Bat Conservation International on Wednesday, March 9, 2022
We quickly realized that the bat we had caught was unusual and extraordinary. The features on the muzzle were too marked, almost comical from a certain point of view. Horseshoe bats are easily distinguished from other bats due to their characteristic horseshoe shape and the peculiar flaps of skin on the nose "
said BCI's Dr. Winifred Frick. Scholars photographed the bat, taking its measurements and comparing them with data provided by European museum archives to confirm the discovery and so it was. The animal was immediately released into the wild, after analysis and official confirmation: the horseshoe bat is no longer extinct!
The research project that BCI experts are carrying out in Rwanda began in 2013. After nine years, 23 different caves monitored at each point and thousands of audio recordings, the presence of Rhinolophus hilli was detected in eight cavities. Despite everything, its diffusion area remains very small, which is why Bat Conservation International together with the park bodies with which it collaborates, will do everything to protect its habitat and ensure the survival of the species.
Fonte: batcon
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