AMBALAM CAVE
8.750000,77.500000
Description
What either consists of a wide mouthed, spacious cave with dark narrow chambers in unspecified rock (laterite?) adjacent to a riverbed at an elevation above 1000 m asl (note 1) or consists of an unused building in the forest interior (note 2) reports VANITHARANI (2005a: 7) as a habitat of the rare Salim Ali's fruit bat. Compare the caves near –>Injikuli in certain Pothigai Hills (not identified). ETYMOLOGY: The Malayalam -ambalam- signifies a Hindu temple. SITUATION: In the Agasthiyar Hill complex (VANITHARANI 2005a: 7) or, to be precice, in the southern part of the Western Ghats and somewhere at an unknown location in the Kalakad Mundantharai Tiger Reserve (note 3). CAVE LIFE: Salim Ali's bat (Chiroptera: Megachiroptera: Pteropodiae: Latidens salimalii Thonglongya 1972) is present at the Ambalam cave (VANITHARANI 2005a: 7).What either consists of a wide mouthed, spacious cave with dark narrow chambers in unspecified rock (laterite?) adjacent to a riverbed at an elevation above 1000 m asl (note 1) or consists of an unused building in the forest interior (note 2) reports VANITHARANI (2005a: 7) as a habitat of the rare Salim Ali's fruit bat. Compare the caves near –>Injikuli in certain Pothigai Hills (not identified). ETYMOLOGY: The Malayalam -ambalam- signifies a Hindu temple. SITUATION: In the Agasthiyar Hill complex (VANITHARANI 2005a: 7) or, to be precice, in the southern part of the Western Ghats and somewhere at an unknown location in the Kalakad Mundantharai Tiger Reserve (note 3). CAVE LIFE: Salim Ali's bat (Chiroptera: Megachiroptera: Pteropodiae: Latidens salimalii Thonglongya 1972) is present at the Ambalam cave (VANITHARANI 2005a: 7).
Histoire
EXPLORATION HISTORY: 2002.04.7: 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 (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae: Latidens salimalii Thonglongya 1972) in the Ambalam Cave (VANITHARANI 2005a: 7).
Cavités proche
Distance (km) | Nom | Longueur (m) | Profondeur (m) |
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0.0 | VELLIMALAI, Kalakad - Mundanthurai (Caves at) | ||
0.0 | JAMBULINGAM KUGHAI | ||
0.0 | NAGAPOTHIGAI CAVE | ||
0.0 | PEEDAM CAVE | ||
0.0 | VUDUMBUKAL CAVE | ||
0.0 | ARANGADU CAVE | ||
18.3 | INJIKULI, Pothigai Hills (Cave near) | ||
20.2 | TIRUNELVELI WELL - TUNNEL | ||
25.3 | SENGALTHERI CAVE |