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The weather is definitely getting more rainy (technical term). The days are still really hot, but in the evening for the past couple of days at around 5pm it has started to pour with rain, thunder and lightning. Not ideal when doing a nocturnal project with a telemetry... So for the past few nights I haven't been able to go out. The forest in the area of Krik is also flooded so I'm wading through near knee deep water, climbing through vines in the dark looking for something the size of a big guinea pig normally at least 10m high in a tree. Tried going out last night when the rain stopped but it was a massive fail as the signal was coming from every direction, so we gave up and came back.
There's a lot of habitat analysis going on here for the other projects so in the day I've just been going out to help with them. Not the most exciting thing to do, it involves setting up at 20m x 20m plot and measuring, identifying and numbering every tree within it and a few other things. I think I have to do one soon, but only 5m around a tree!
Wildlife wise I saw a tarsier last week. Was out with little Krikster and it was just getting dark. Saw something land on a vine, shone my torch thinking it would be some kind of bird but it was a tarsier. As soon as I realised what it was, it jumped away. They're even smaller than the loris and a lot quicker, so I'm not quite sure how they expect me/Anto to try and catch one? They are the strangest things, look like gremlins and make this weird sreaming sound which doesn't help. Other than that, just the usual, orangutans, crocs, lots of civets, heard some gibbons oh and I found another tortoise yesterday! So random finding them in a forest.
So if it doesn't rain tonight I'm going out again! Not much planned for the rest of the month, the two volunteers are leaving, another Canadian is coming for two weeks and beginning of October there's man named Simon who is coming in to teach us all how to climb and instruct others to climb the canopy platform!
Lots of love xx
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