Comments on: Bat Night http://www.shaunroundy.com/2009/09/01/bat-night/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:45:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Becky http://www.shaunroundy.com/2009/09/01/bat-night/comment-page-1/#comment-3872 Becky Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:49:44 +0000 http://www.shaunroundy.com/?p=341#comment-3872 Bats do indeed carry rabies. The Silver Haired Bats are more liekely to get rabies then the other ones. Not sure why but "The Duke" a mammology teacher told me that once. Bats with rabies are usually the ones found flying during the day. We measure the bats to help us indentify them and for general knowledge. The information is also stored in a state database for bats. Bats do indeed carry rabies. The Silver Haired Bats are more liekely to get rabies then the other ones. Not sure why but “The Duke” a mammology teacher told me that once. Bats with rabies are usually the ones found flying during the day.

We measure the bats to help us indentify them and for general knowledge. The information is also stored in a state database for bats.

]]> By: Shaun http://www.shaunroundy.com/2009/09/01/bat-night/comment-page-1/#comment-3616 Shaun Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:52:09 +0000 http://www.shaunroundy.com/?p=341#comment-3616 I dunno exactly, Melanee. Part of it's to check their health and make sure nothing's happening to them without our knowledge, and to see if bats from other areas move around much (thus the recording of their sounds as they fly off). Back east, there's a white mold or fungus growing on bats, and apparently it makes them use up their winter fat sooner while hibernating and fly out looking for food while everything's still covered in snow, and starving to death. If they can't stop it, the bat population could be decimated and that spells trouble! I assume the info is stored locally unless they come up with something worth publishing. And I was just along for the ride. I do tours/interp at the cave rather than interesting scientific stuff like this. I'd love to be the one untangling those bats from the net (even that scary hissing one!) but I'd have to get an expensive panel of rabies shots first (although someone just told me that bats don't carry rabies after all). I dunno exactly, Melanee. Part of it’s to check their health and make sure nothing’s happening to them without our knowledge, and to see if bats from other areas move around much (thus the recording of their sounds as they fly off).

Back east, there’s a white mold or fungus growing on bats, and apparently it makes them use up their winter fat sooner while hibernating and fly out looking for food while everything’s still covered in snow, and starving to death. If they can’t stop it, the bat population could be decimated and that spells trouble!

I assume the info is stored locally unless they come up with something worth publishing.

And I was just along for the ride. I do tours/interp at the cave rather than interesting scientific stuff like this. I’d love to be the one untangling those bats from the net (even that scary hissing one!) but I’d have to get an expensive panel of rabies shots first (although someone just told me that bats don’t carry rabies after all).

]]> By: Melanee http://www.shaunroundy.com/2009/09/01/bat-night/comment-page-1/#comment-3609 Melanee Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:51:13 +0000 http://www.shaunroundy.com/?p=341#comment-3609 Great picture. For what purpose do they capture and record information about the bats? Where do they store the information? I am glad YOU are the one doing it. :) Great picture. For what purpose do they capture and record information about the bats? Where do they store the information? I am glad YOU are the one doing it. :)

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