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<\/a>I was asked to do a talk for a gardening club and asked if I could tangentally link it to bats and plants. Instead I decided to write a new section because the relationship between neotropical bats and plantss is fascinating. See an article on bat pollination at 2009-4 Bat pollination<\/a>\u00a0 I was able to use photographs we had taken when on expeditions with Daniel Hargreaves, in particular the Trinibats <\/a>adventures on which we had taken loads of photos. Our friend Daniel Hargreaves – pictured here with David Attenborough – gave us permission to use some of his videos and they went down a storm. People were able to get a taste for just why bat addicts sit in the dark for hours on end.<\/p>\nBetter still\u00a0 five of the people present cornered me to thank me, saying they had previously been afraid of bats, but now saw them in a new light.<\/p>\n
My talk was interrupted by a bat flying back and forth outside the village hall. Unfortunately by the time we had finished it had moved on.<\/p>\n
As always the captive Noctule went down a storm<\/p>\n
If you want so see some of Daniel’s videos , they are to be found on you tube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/danielhargreaves<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I must admit that I tend to work on the principle that if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, so I do basically the same at each talk I give and as a result people belonging to different groups have … Continue reading