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C. Cavelen
1967
Journal
80
Oct 21
Taboga Island, Rep de Panama
walked on the rocks around the island. It
gets Taboga is lowy. Lavender g once a day
during the week & very often on weekends. The
island is like a storybook. Little curvy streets
lined with flowers & trees.
The bats were
about 20 feet up. They were clust[er]d in two
groups. They weren't still - some were crawly[ing]
down the walls & others were moving their heads
around. Every 5 min or so one would fly
from the group, circle & then land again in
the pile of bats. I'd guess about 200 of them.
ledge where Peter stood
Henry & Don were n
side the cave & threw
rocks at the clust[er]s of bats
Some fell dead & other were frightened &
stunned & would try to fly out. Only about 15
were caught in the mist net. Most flew
out high up where Peter was. He had a
fishing landing net & purling at them as
they flew out. This stunned them more.
He would then drop them to me & I
[illegible] injected them. Some got away before I
could injest them. We laughed the
entire time because there were bats &
stones flying everywhere. I am cursan
we lost about 30 bats because they fell
mist net
stood here.