DNA and sonar data used in discovery of four new species of Horseshoe bat

Friday, September 14, 2012 - 08:02 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org)—A new multidisciplinary study on the enigmatic large Horseshoe bat – found widespread throughout South and East Africa – has revealed that instead of just one species as previously believed, the bat is in fact five different species, four of which have just been classified for the first time following their discovery.

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