Detecting rabbits 'bogus'

This strange creature was recently found in the Philippines, shortly after science almost confirmed that it did not exist.

Jake Esselstyn, a biologist at the University of Kansas, is a member of the research team, who discovered an animal that was a fruit bat last year while surveying forest life on Mindoro Island.

"When we went to Mindoro for the first time, a local hired guide described me very well with this bat, and he asked me what its name was," Esselstyn said. "I politely say there are no bats like that. I was wrong."

A few days later, the scientific team stumbled upon a creature in a nest very similar to the guide's description: a large raven bat with bright orange fur and distinctive white stripes along the forehead and jaw its.

"The guide's description of the animal is quite accurate, and I had to apologize for not believing him," Esselstyn said. He also added that the animal is now known as a striped face-eating bat Mindoro. The closest species to them lives 1,200 km away on an island in Indonesia.

"That will make us wonder if there are any other relatives of them living on the islands between these two places. And it also makes us realize how many more species may not be found, in the Philippines. as in other places ".

T. An