First record of a bat from the Lakshadweep archipelago, southwestern India
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Kadambari Deshpande
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Mayuresh Gangal
Abstract
The first record of a bat species from the Lakshadweep archipelago (India) has been identified as Tadarida aegyptiaca (Chiroptera: Molossidae). It appears unlikely that any bat colony may have been resident on the islands. Stranding during migration, high aerial foraging, or disorientation by wind farms on the west coast of mainland India, are factors that need to be further explored to explain this occurrence.
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the Lakshadweep Administration and the Departments of Environment and Forests, Science and Technology and Fisheries for granting us permits for entering the islands. We would like to thank Rohan Arthur and Ajith Kumar for institutional support and help with getting permits, and Mohammad Yaseen, M.K. Ibrahim and Baljeet T.P. for their support in the field. We thank the teaching and non-teaching staff and Mohammad Iqbal, Principal of the Senior Secondary School, Amini, Lakshadweep for their help in handling and showing us the bat specimen. We would also like to sincerely thank the associate editor, editor-in-chief and reviewers for helping us to improve the manuscript considerably.
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- Frontmatter
- Review
- The wild goat, Capra aegagrus Erxleben, 1777, of the island of Montecristo (Northern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy): does it still exist?
- Original Studies
- Trophic relationships of sympatric small carnivores in fragmented landscapes of southern Brazil: niche overlap and potential for competition
- Dietary adaptation of white-headed langurs in a fragmented limestone habitat
- Winter foraging of chinkara (Gazella bennettii shikarii) in Central Iran
- Null model analysis on bat species co-occurrence and nestedness patterns in a region of the Atlantic Rainforest, Brazil
- Richness and distribution of porcupines (Erethizontidae: Coendou) from Colombia
- The level of rodent problems in poultry farms of Rawalpindi-Islamabad, Pakistan
- Survival and recruitment of the multimammate mouse, Mastomys natalensis (Smith 1834), in a rice agro-ecosystem
- New records of Cryptonanus guahybae (Tate, 1931) in southern Brazil inferred from molecular and morphological data
- Short Notes
- The wild goat of Montecristo Island: did it ever exist?
- First record of a bat from the Lakshadweep archipelago, southwestern India
- Status of pinnipeds in Southeast Asia
- Breeding habits of the Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) in Potohar Plateau, Pakistan
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