New cave bat species in Sri Lanka highlights need for more research

Mongabay
Sep 29, 2022, 9:24 am173 pts
COLOMBO — During the 18th and 19th centuries when Sri Lanka was a British colony, many British naturalists studied the island’s rich biodiversity and contributed to profiling the same. Tea planter W.W.A. Phillips was one of them, a man who was particularly interested in mammals, and eventually published the…

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