Despite its great mammalian fauna, the bat diversity of Sumatra remains one of the least known of the large Indonesian islands. Between 2010-2012, a research team of faculty, staff, and students from Texas Tech University, Universiti Lampung, Wildlife Conservation Society-Indonesian P

December brought the SEABCRU to southern Vietnam for the last of our “Network Gap” Workshops. Northern Vietnam has been a center for bat research for the past 10 years, but little is known of the ecology of bats in the south of the country where there are no bat research e

SEABCRU’s Matt Struebig and colleagues (including SEABCRU members Felica Lasmana and Anthony Turner) report on new research into the consequences of repeated logging for SE Asian bat diversity -with a few surprises on the potential value of heavily logged forests for bat conserv

The children’s story “Batty and Pitty” is based on our research about the mutualistic relationship between the bat species Kerivoula hardwickii hardwickii and the carnivorous pitcher plant Nepenthes hemsleyana. Both species can be found on Borneo. The relationship be

This volume is edited by Rick Adams and Scott Pedersen, and published by Springer Press It is available as an e book if your institute has access to Springer ebooks, otherwise it is very expensive. I have a chapter that gives my perspective on how our work in Malaysia relates to fores

Written by Michael Gerhard Schöner and Caroline Regina Schöner. Here we present our new study on the unusual interaction between bats (Kerivoula hardwickii hardwickii) and carnivorous pitcher plants (Nepenthes). Using radio-telemetry we discovered that the bats exclusively used two pi

Stefan Greif brought a report on bat surveys of the YUS conservation area of Papua New Guinea to my attention, authored by Simon K.A. Robson, Tamara E. Inkster, Andrew K. Krockenberger. From the executive summary “This project provides the first description of bat community stru

News of a new book written by Pandam Nugroho Prasetyo, Sephy Noerfahmy and Hesti Lestari Tata that provides a guide to species (and methods used to catch them) found in two provinces in Sumatra during rapid surveys. Thanks to Sephy for providing a copy! Bats of Agroforests Sumatra pdf

In much of SE Asia, the Kerivoula and Murina forage for insects in dense forest habitats. Using echolocation to detect prey in such “acoustically cluttered” environments is a challenge because of the problems of forward and backward masking. The role of the extremely broad

I thought this video from Australia on roosting behavior of Kerivoula papuensis (should be Phoniscus papuensis) was interesting — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqawKqjxBXk&feature=youtube_gdata. Worth keeping an eye-out for hanging/woven bird-nests as bat roosts where Phoni