ARANGADU CAVE

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

What possibly consists of a wide mouthed, spacious cave with dark narrow chambers in unspecified rock (laterite?), which lies adjacent to a riverbed at an elevation above 1000 m asl (note 1), reports VANITHARANI (2005a: 7) as the home and habitat of Salim Ali's fruit bat and edible nest swifts. SITUATION: In a certain Kothaiyar hill complex (VANITHARANI 2005a: 7) or, to be precise, at an unknown location somewhere in the Kalakad Mundantharai Tiger Reserve in the southern part of the Western Ghats. CAVE LIFE: Salim Ali's bat (Chiroptera: Megachiroptera: Pteropodiae: Latidens salimalii Thonglongya 1972) is present in the so-called Arangadu Cave (VANITHARANI2005a: 7).What possibly consists of a wide mouthed, spacious cave with dark narrow chambers in unspecified rock (laterite?), which lies adjacent to a riverbed at an elevation above 1000 m asl (note 1), reports VANITHARANI (2005a: 7) as the home and habitat of Salim Ali's fruit bat and edible nest swifts. SITUATION: In a certain Kothaiyar hill complex (VANITHARANI 2005a: 7) or, to be precise, at an unknown location somewhere in the Kalakad Mundantharai Tiger Reserve in the southern part of the Western Ghats. CAVE LIFE: Salim Ali's bat (Chiroptera: Megachiroptera: Pteropodiae: Latidens salimalii Thonglongya 1972) is present in the so-called Arangadu Cave (VANITHARANI2005a: 7).