Greetings all,

Not a great night last night in terms of numbers; it absolutely poured down at about 10.30 pm for several hours, giving 30.2 mm of rain. We are getting quite worried at the field station because we sit at the junction of two rivers, the Sungei Lompat and Sungei Krau and they have both increased in height by well over a meter in the last couple of days. If we get too much more rain, they can’t feed into each other fast enough, and the water tends to back up and flood the field station. So we are hoping that doesn’t happen!!!

Traps last night were KL0397, KL0399, KL0401, KL0403, KL0405, KL0407, KL0409., KL0431, KL0433, KL0435, KL0437 and KL0439. Despite the low catch rate we had ANOTHER really special species — Phoniscus jagorii. It looks like P. atrox but is bigger — forearm around 40 mm, and weight around 9-10 g. This was only the seventh individual since 1996! In fact the individual I caught back in 1996 was the first one ever found in Peninsular Malaysia, and there have been very few (if any) records for this species in other parts of the country. What was pretty interesting was that this was the first male, the other six were all females, and five of them were caught in Kuala Lompat, although the last one was in 2005. So although a wet and soggy night, it was worth it to have caught that species.

Here are the data: