Malaysian Bat Education Adventure

Jun
04

3rd June 2010

By tkingston

Hi Folks
Last night was not a good night, as we got caught out by very heavy rains. Normally, we close the traps ahead of time if we think it is going to rain. So from about 6 pm we start staring at the sky and trying to decide if its going to rain or not. Last night though, we had no warning; everything looked fine at 6 pm but at around 7.15 pm a storm started to blow in from nowhere! By that time it is too late to close the traps, especially when they are so far into the forest. By 8 pm when we left to check the traps it was raining, and we had thunder and lightning for most of the rest of the night.

So we had a very small evening catch (just four bats), and nothing this morning. The traps set were KL0715, KL0717, KL0719, KL0721, KL0723, KL0725, KL0727, KL0729, KL0731, KL0733, KL0735, KL0737. Fingers crossed for a better night tonight!

Band R Date Time Trap Species Sex Age FA(mm) Wt(g)
MBCRUC0883 R 3-Jun-10 21:00 KL0735 Rhinolophus trifoliatus M A 52.4 14.25
3-Jun-10 21:00 KL0733 Kerivoula pellucida F A 33.3 4.50
MBCRU7120 R 3-Jun-10 21:00 KL0733 Kerivoula intermedia M A 28.9 3.50
MBCRU2162 3-Jun-10 21:00 KL0727 Kerivoula intermedia M A 29.1 3.25

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