Photography release of bats isn’t easy; Alice attempts to release one here, but it only flies off after my flash ran out of juice.
Failed bat release
Tag Archives: Mammals
Vampire bats!
The bat group trapped a couple of vampire bats (Desmodus sp.), which can be quickly identified by their large thumbs. Vampire bats do feast on blood, but it is most often on cattle and other livestock.
Jason releases some bats
Jason and I were a bit more successful at capturing the release of this large, nectivorous (?) bat.
Bat mist netting
A couple of mentors for NAPIRE, the program I’m working with this summer in Costa Rica, are guiding students in collecting bat-data… Currently, they have used mist nets to collect bats near the station and they data a myriad of data from each bat. Here are some photos of their collections. Look out for the bat parasites (bat flies in this case)!
Also posted on Facebook.
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Neotropical Otter Prints and Scat
Yes… weird, I know, but here are some photographs of Neotropical Otter (Lontra longicaudis) sign taken during some field work on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica. These are not recent photographs, but throwbacks…
The scat was interesting: lots of pieces and parts of shrimp are included. We encountered several otters in various rivers throughout the Osa, and one hadn’t noticed us as we seined for characids (a type of fish we were interested in collecting) and missed running into my leg in ~4 feet of water by a hair…. But they were always too fast to photograph, so this will have to do…
An attempt at small mammal trapping
Scott, Joe and I retrieved a single Peromyscus sp. (probably leucopus) mouse during a mammal trapping trial early this summer. Joe had a position in Missouri trapping out mammals of all sorts from areas that they were not wanted, and he advised Scott in setting and baiting the Sherman traps. Here, Joe weighs the mouse; soon after, it escaped…
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Keepers of the forest
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Last weekend, while visiting Erik’s cottage, we saw a pair of porcupines, which was the first time I had every seen a while one. The pair were relatively small, but it was certainly a mother and offspring that hobbled under some dark bushes off of the trail we were hiking. Fortunately, neither fired any quills at me while photographing them…. |
Wetland cows
The cows pictured here came to investigate the noise I made while searching for tadpoles. They stared impatiently and I sifted through samples, waiting until I left to continue their daily grazing.
Deer landscapes
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Danta – Tapir
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