The Museum’s refereed scientific journal Museum Publications in Natural History has just released its 2015 volume, which focused on the theme “Cave and Karst Biodiversity." The four regular articles and two research notes published in the issue were on bats, spiders, mites, macrofungi, cave crickets and cockroaches in cave and...
Documentation of Philippine bat zoonotic viruses continue
Researchers from the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences (UT GSALS), UPLB College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) and the UPLB Museum of Natural History (MNH) collaborated once again to document the presence of zoonotic viruses in Philippine bats by conducting a fieldwork in Mabini, Pangasinan from...
Mt. Makiling bats carry protozoa which can cause stomach illness
Bats captured in Mt. Makiling last February 2015 and studied by a team of researchers from five Japanese institutions, UPLB College of Veterinary Medicine and the Museum of Natural History were found to harbor protozoa that can cause gastrointestinal infections.