Field notes, v1506
Page 399
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Weg phid 1973 Journal 145 275km NW Villa Hayes rd, Dept. Pk Hayes, Paraguay 22 July assume weathe remaining good. By "Tropero" (driving) costs $30 000 . Thus paying the lighting wait help the cattlemen much economically Oscar said that of course they regard it as a great inconvenience but little more. Transporting costs will not fall, in fact they may rise. Rode out to where the tractor is plowing furrow preparing to plantin Pangola. Soil is so hard that the heavy thic harrow turns in only 5 cm. Begins harrowing to get to the seem necessary 20cm. Warmed up fast. Afternoon light, in 70's swind, clear. released three of two what but we didn't catch. Of those caught in the palm roofs of the sheepfolds cattle pen, 200 yards from the main bldg & bat roost, afterwards 24 bats ingot all all disappeared to various places. But those caught in the cookhouse roof, 300yds from the main roof headed for the main roost. My complete unexpected . My traps were half closed by no means block the entrance to the roost yet I've recaptured 5 individuals of in 10 minutes after releasing them. Seems strange particular since this time we're caught only 4 bats from mainroost. The bats from the cookhouse roost been common, carft 55 in all, of which released about 30. M. nigres M. allbreen & a strang Neolassid all muddling together under the palm log. The