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Some bats for you to see

Angelena — Sun, 02 May 2021 10:06:45 +0000

Check out this post to find out more about a few of the bat species we have caught recently (during our research with ABC)

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Wildebeest Necropsy, A Weird Way to Spend a Day Off

Angelena — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 18:54:53 +0000

Now the following is a bit gruesome... may I warn you. So those of you that don’t like a blood and mess, might want to skip past this blog entry. For those not familiar with the term, a necropsy is a post mortem examination of animal to determine the cause of death.

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1st World Bat Twitter Conference

Angelena — Mon, 25 May 2020 20:14:50 +0000

Excited to be part of the 1st World Bat Twitter Conference which is being organise by researchers working in the UWE Bat Conservation Research Lab. On the flipside I am so nervous about it. I normally don’t get nervous presenting but as this is a different format I find myself a bit stressed out about it!

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One Musketeer Goes Home

Angelena — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 21:12:56 +0000

We also had a braai night on Sunday night, but sadly this will be the last for Tom as he is going back to the UK, due to all this crazy virus stuff going on... We are going to be a musketeer down in the bat team.

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Storms Are Coming Again

Angelena — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 21:42:06 +0000

We managed to get an extra night in of surveying and managed to go down to the banana plantation for one last survey attempt…but the rain halted that and back to camp we went.

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Busy Bats and an Elephant

Angelena — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 23:56:43 +0000

Daniel and Bridget arrived this week from the Bat Conservation and Research Unit in the UK for a scoping trip with African Bat Conservation. I was super excited to have them hear as I was working with them both in England!

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Bat Surveying On A Farm

Angelena — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 07:08:02 +0000

After Emma’s departure and a few days off, Tom and I spent a few days scoping out a new site for a potential new African Bat Conservation project, with bats and farms.

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Bringing It Home With Hot Sauce

Angelena — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 22:50:36 +0000

Bringing It Home was screened, which talks about hemps many uses including in the construction industry, as food and medicine. After the screening, we headed over to the Cuneco bar and the tunes were so good and the wine so affordable (£2 a glass)...

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Sundowners and a Pizza Party

Angelena — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 21:09:30 +0000

For something a bit different we went to a pizza night and before that a bunch of went for volleyball with a few beers. The others went out for sun downers at Kumbali beforehand but thankfully me, Lena and Tom went for some earlier in the week on the rock spot you see in the picture!

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Imposter Syndrome

Angelena — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:28:15 +0000

Had a bit of a meltdown this week, largely as so much has been going on, surveys cancelled due to weather and partly because Sophie one of our students has decided to go home which was a bit of a shock...

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