Researchers: 2nd bat species once lived in Hawaii ADVERTISING Researchers: 2nd bat species once lived in Hawaii HONOLULU (AP) — Scientists from Honolulu’s Bishop Museum helped document the existence of a second bat species that once lived in the Hawaiian
Researchers: 2nd bat species once lived in Hawaii
HONOLULU (AP) — Scientists from Honolulu’s Bishop Museum helped document the existence of a second bat species that once lived in the Hawaiian Islands.
The Hawaiian hoary bat is the state’s only native land mammal. But a new study says a second bat lived alongside the hoary bat for thousands of years. Researchers think the second bat went extinct shortly after humans arrived in the islands.
The study appears this week in the journal American Museum Novitates.
Bishop Museum entomologist Francis Howarth co-authored the paper with the late Bishop Museum mammologist Alan Ziegler and Nancy Simmons of the American Museum of Natural History.
Fossils indicate the bat was in the islands from at least 320,000 years ago and survived until at least 1,100 years ago.
Firefighters rescue 14 stranded hikers
WAILUKU, Maui (AP) — Maui firefighters rescued 14 hikers stranded by flash flooding.
Maui Fire Department Capt. Rylan Yatsushiro said in a statement that authorities received a call Monday afternoon from a home overlooking Makamakaole Gulch after someone there heard cries for help.
The hikers were in two separate groups in different parts of the gulch. A fire department helicopter flew the seven residents and seven visitors to a safe landing zone along Kahekili Highway.
An ambulance took two 64-year-old visitors to Maui Memorial Medical Center with minor injuries.
The other 12 hikers were uninjured.
