Field notes, v1516
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AK Pearson 1950 every tunnel we knew of in the area but found no more bats. About 1144 we drove up to the Reid Mine where there was one awake Cory that we didn't collect. Then on to Bethu Springs. About 3 we landed in the kitchen attic & saw 2 Cory, both awake. He didn't get either of them. Colony found in rear of upper tunnel. We weighed, banded, etc, 19 babies. There were 4-5 pregnant ff. And 4+ females who were neither lactating or pregnant. When we finished the banding we had only 2 babies extra, I had released 3 lactating females, so perhaps we missed a baby somewhere in the tunnel. Most of the babies we fastened out the mother before we released her but the 2 extra plus one other baby who wouldn't hold on properly we put up on the wall & watched. It wasn't long before the mothers came & got them. First they would circle around, finally land and make a clicking sound while nuzzling the baby. The baby who wouldn't hold on was covered by her mother & nuzzled, but when the mother took off the baby still clung to the wall. The mother wheeled right around and landed on top of the baby again and the next take - off the baby clung properly. One apparently full-term baby was really a new-born. It was born in the cage and when we were handling the mother she still had not completely expelled the placenta. The baby was