Rohit Chakravarty

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.

@SrabaniBasu4 Thanks, Srabani! :)

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!

@greenheroaf Thanks a lot, Amelia! :)

@paintedbat Wow! A new bat species in the Himalayas—what a thrilling discovery! 🦇🌍

@msabine900 Thanks a lot for sharing and for your appreciation, Sabine! :)

@paintedbat CONGRATULATIONS! The amazing world of bats! I'm going to share this in the bluesky bat feed

Can't publish the post without thanking my amazing field team, funders, and the Uttarakhand Forest Department without whom these discoveries were impossible!

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/39…

@shyamphartyal @MonadjemAra @IBRC2025 Well identified - even though this lake and the peak are iconic :)

@paintedbat @MonadjemAra @IBRC2025 Devariya tal and Chaukhamba peaks are always mesmerising, just like in this picture.

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

@sci_questions @MonadjemAra @IBRC2025 Yeah, looks like it - for the first time since college ;-)

@paintedbat @MonadjemAra @IBRC2025 So I’ll finally get to meet you in Cairns? This is awesome!

@Gyapachow @snowleopards @SnowLeopardNet @ncfindia Wow, congrats Karma le! 🤗

@snowleopards @SnowLeopardNet @ncfindia Hey! Checkout this interesting story by The Better India thebetterindia.com/371701/interna…

@gokhale_pranav @ksuryawanshi @voigtbatlab @IZWberlin @ncfindia Thanks a lot, Pranav! :)

@paintedbat @ksuryawanshi @voigtbatlab @IZWberlin @ncfindia Great work, Rohit!

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/10.100…

@SoilAndAle @ksuryawanshi @voigtbatlab @IZWberlin @ncfindia Thanks, glad to hear that :)

@sci_questions @ksuryawanshi @voigtbatlab @IZWberlin @ncfindia Thanks, Arinjay! Glad to hear from you :)

@paintedbat @ksuryawanshi @voigtbatlab @IZWberlin @ncfindia Nice work, Rohit.

@BaheerathanM Thanks a lot for sharing, Bahee! 🤗

".. Our results show that mountain dwelling species are proportionately more data deficient than species that predominantly occur in lowlands" says @paintedbat et al in the recently published study 👇🏽 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

@batgirl_susan Thanks a lot for sharing, Susan! :))

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

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.