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Rohit Chakravarty @paintedbat
Joined January 2016
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Rohit Chakravarty@paintedbat
17 Oct 2023
What a day! So overwhelmed by the love and support of friends, family, and of course, my supervisors. I can now finally call myself Dr. Chakravarty 🥹 Fahrt endet hier! Thanks @voigtbatlab and Viktoriia for this enriching journey.
Christian Voigt (he/him)@voigtbatlab
17 Oct 2023
A celebration of #bats of the Himalayas! Very well done, Rohit, during your PhD defence. It's been a pleasure to join you on this path. Please continue doing the wonderful research you do and helping to protect our global diversity Dr Chakravarty
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A new species of bat from the Himalayas - the Himalayan Long-tailed Myotis (Myotis himalaicus). My first new species; a discovery made with my favourite collaborators from my favourite place in the Himalayas: Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary, Uttarakhand!
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All this and much more in our paper published in Zootaxa today! It's behind a paywall. Kindly DM me or request a copy via ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication…
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Can't publish the post without thanking my amazing field team, funders, and the Uttarakhand Forest Department without whom these discoveries were impossible!
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Do you study bats in mountain environments? My dear friend @MonadjemAra and I are organising a symposium on mountain bats at @IBRC2025 ! Please please consider submitting an abstract! *Deadline 14th May* Details here: ibrc.org/symposia.html
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New paper with Viktoriia Radchuk, @ksuryawanshi & @voigtbatlab . The last from my PhD at @IZWberlin and the 1st with my new workplace @ncfindia Mountains are hard to work in, bats are elusive. How well do we know bats that occur only in mountains? link.springer.com/article/10…

Mountains host significantly more data deficient and threatened bat species than lowlands

Biodiversity and Conservation - Mountains harbour one third of the world’s biodiversity and much of it is under increasing anthropogenic pressure. Yet, global assessments of the occurrence,...

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Why are these results important? Data deficient (DD) species are typically excluded from conservation projects. Funders consider funding projects to seek DD species as a gamble. However, several papers suggest that DD species may actually be threatened.
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Take-home message: we need to fund more expeditions to document the distribution and ecology of mountain-dwelling bats before we lose them in oblivion. 📸Kashmir Long-eared Bat: a species restricted to highlands of the Himalayas
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Kelaart's Pipistrelles flourishing in our Nagpur home. Juveniles flying around exploring the house and crash landing everywhere. @thetoonguy has become an expert bat catcher and our dogs don't get started by bats any more. No gloves as I wasn't prepared to catch bats in my home!
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Global South bat researchers don't miss this exciting opportunity! 🤩
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I had a delightful time teaching ecology and biodiversity sampling at @CoexConsortium - one-of-its-kind fellowship to impart formal training to grassroots conservationists. The camaraderie among the fellows is worth experiencing. I thank the Consortium for this kind invitation.
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Question to molecular ecologists in India. We want to outsource the entire process of DNA metabarcoding to study the diet of some insectivorous bats. Please recommend private genomics labs (preferably in Bangalore or Delhi)!
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Thanks for your kind words, @yaminivijayan ! 😊
Yamini Vijayan@yaminivijayan
13 Jul 2024
One of my favourite things about editing with @darknlightzine is that it widens my perspectives in so many unexpected ways. Like this interview of @paintedbat by @susieqllap, on a bat call library: darknlight.com/projects/inte…
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We brought together a room full of bat researchers and conservationists in India for the first time since 2002! Looking forward to great outputs and wonderful collaborations. Onwards and upwards 🦇📔
Nature Conservation Foundation@ncfindia
25 Jun 2024
We partnered with @BatConIntl to host the ‘State of India’s Bats’ (SoIBats) workshop at @NCBS_Bangalore on 17 and 18 June 2024. Participants discussed steps to improve research on the ecology of bats, enhance monitoring of threatened bat populations and species, and lots more!
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🥲🥲🥲 Check out Pritha's cool study about the moth diet of the Lesser False Vampire. Now, technically, we can attend a bat conference together 😬
Pritha Dey@pritha126
2 May 2024
Happy to share again :) and thank @paintedbat who taught me everything bats as I only knew moths! Find out why and which moths get hunted by a bat with a unique hunting strategy 👇 #preypredator #moths
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