VUDUMBUKAL CAVE

(Cheranmahadevi - IN)
8.750000,77.500000
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

What possibly consists of a wide mouthed, spacious cave with dark and narrow cave chambers that have formed in unspecified rock (laterite?) adjacent to a riverbed at an elevation above 1000 m asl (note 1) reports VANITHARANI (2005a: 7) as a habitat of the rare Salim Ali's fruit bat and edible nest swifts. SITUATION: At an unknown location somewhere in the Kalakad Mundantharai Tiger Reserve in the southern part of the Western Ghats. VANITHARANI (2005a: 7) places Sengaltheri Cave somewhere in certain Servelar Hills (???). CAVE LIFE: Not only the edible Salim Ali's bat (Chiroptera: Megachiroptera: Pteropodiae: Latidens salimalii Thonglongya 1972) but also edible nest swifts nesting (VANITHARANI 2005a: 7).What possibly consists of a wide mouthed, spacious cave with dark and narrow cave chambers that have formed in unspecified rock (laterite?) adjacent to a riverbed at an elevation above 1000 m asl (note 1) reports VANITHARANI (2005a: 7) as a habitat of the rare Salim Ali's fruit bat and edible nest swifts. SITUATION: At an unknown location somewhere in the Kalakad Mundantharai Tiger Reserve in the southern part of the Western Ghats. VANITHARANI (2005a: 7) places Sengaltheri Cave somewhere in certain Servelar Hills (???). CAVE LIFE: Not only the edible Salim Ali's bat (Chiroptera: Megachiroptera: Pteropodiae: Latidens salimalii Thonglongya 1972) but also edible nest swifts nesting (VANITHARANI 2005a: 7).

Documents

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History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 2002.09.08: One or several full fledged persons representing the Bat Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Sarah Tucker College, Tirunelveli collected specimens of Salim Ali's fruit bat in the Vudumbukal Cave (VANITHARANI 2005a: 7). Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

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Distance (km)NameLength (m)Depth (m)
0.0VELLIMALAI, Kalakad - Mundanthurai (Caves at)
0.0JAMBULINGAM KUGHAI
0.0NAGAPOTHIGAI CAVE
0.0AMBALAM CAVE
0.0PEEDAM CAVE
0.0ARANGADU CAVE
18.3INJIKULI, Pothigai Hills (Cave near)
20.2TIRUNELVELI WELL - TUNNEL
25.3SENGALTHERI CAVE