Yesterday, i went off to my trapping site in a disturbed fragmented area near Berakas forest reserve with Salihah, Azman, Rawi & Aywen who happened to help me out setting up two harp traps and we left it overnight. The harp traps are used to catch any low-flying bat & they consist of a frame that supports 4 rows of fine line thread and a catching bag at the base. If a bat detects the first row and swerves to pass through, it collides with the second row and tumbles into the collecting bag.
The next day, Ikhwani accompanied me checking the traps. I was so excited & i couldnt wait to see what did i catch today. We checked the 1st harp trap: no bat was found. The same thing goes to the 2nd trap. sigh. i was pretty dissappointed. Then we moved the 2nd harp trap further up in the same trail as before. But as we carried the enomorous, heavy trap, Ikhwani noticed something moving, then a small bat came out hidding from the pocket side of the catching bag.
I was like WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~~!!! I caught myself a bat on my first trapping!!! wuhhooooooooooooooooooooooooooo~
Its a Cynopterus Brachyotis or commonly known as Lesser Short-nosed Fruit bat. Oh yes, its small & cute but then it makes this really annoying noises & it was pretty darn aggressive!!! We werent confident enough to touch the bat using our bare hands, so we used gloves instead. It tried to escape when we were trying to grab a hold of it & the thing surely bites anything that goes near to its mouth!!!!!
P.S: a very big thank you to Salihah, Sepol, Mirul, Qilah, Marhim, Ikhwani, Azman, Rawi, Chak for helping me out ;)
I'm surely looking forward for my next bats trapping adventure :D
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