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Fawn-coloured Leaf-nosed Bat
Hipposideros cervinus
4.40865, 117.933
Field Notes
Description:
This Fawn-coloured Leaf-nosed Bat - Hipposideros cervinus are small in size, around 4-5 cm.
They have nice colour to their fur, which is very fine to touch. The colouration turns to a bright orange colour due to the ammonia from droppings in communal roosts.
Habitat:
From tropical rain forests, they are known to roost caves and in hollow trees and tends to roost in big numbers.
Notes:
I was part of an expedition team doing a survey of bio-diversity of Mt. Lucia which includes a group of Bat researchers from 2 local Universities who joined the expedition to help documents species of Bats that can be found from the Mountain and also to give their students some field experience in collecting bats using mist nets and subsequently collecting data about them. All bats collected were eventually released.
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