14 DAY TRIAL // Wildlife researchers recently came across a bat which, as it is easily noticeable in the picture above, looks fairly similar to a panda bear.
Due to its unique anatomy, this so-called panda bat is expected to be placed in an entirely new genus by the specialists who documented its existence.
Sources say that the specimen pictured above was discovered in South Sudan. Up until now, researchers have only managed to find four others bats belonging to the same species.
One of them was caught back in 1939 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, yet at that time specialists believed that it belonged to the Glauconycteris genus.
“My attention was immediately drawn to the bat's strikingly beautiful and distinct pattern of spots and stripes. It was clearly a very extraordinary animal, one that I had never seen before. (…) It's so unique that we need to create a new genus,” argued Professor DeeAnn Reeder.
By the looks of it, the genus in which this bat will be placed is to be named Niumbaha, meaning “rare,” “unusual.”