VUDUMBUKAL CAVE

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).