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Subject 1: Blue-and-yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna). Timecode In: 00:02:30. Timecode out: 00:06:00. Notes: Time of Day: 1445. Subject 2: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Rainforest ambi. Timecode In: 00:14:00. Timecode out: 00:15:48. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Louise Emmons. Timecode In: 00:15:53. Timecode out: 01:33:40. Notes: Mammology. Subject 4: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Cicada wingbeats. Timecode In: 00:16:11. Timecode out: 00:16:33. Subject 5: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Walking, evening. Timecode In: 00:21:45. Timecode out: 00:22:36. Subject 6: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Stream ambi. Timecode In: 00:22:36. Timecode out: 00:23:48. Habitat: Rainforest. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1. LNS # 137904 Bolivia DAT #4 Tuesday Driving back to Los Fierros after morning trip to EI. Encanto ****** A long bed of Good quiet General Ambi. + a few buzzing bugs FX: *****location ambiance at higher gain, with active high-pitch cicadas.... distant camp voices in background Louise at first mist net. LE: managed to catch a cicada in the net (FX -cicada fluttering). I open these mist nets when it's dark enough for bats to start flying, and after birds have stopped flying. AC: extremely fine black net that you're lowering down a black pole. LE:*** These nets --Japanese mist nets --made by Japanese out of women's hair -used to catch small birds. FX: Louise still at work with nets LE: The thread is so fine so bats can't detect it with their sonar (Link to earlier cut re. Japanese nets) AC: Borneo LE: Borneo for 13 months.... AC: Difficult ? LE: somewhat difficult when go from place to place.....worked for many years in tropics. I normally study the ecology of species. spent a long time doing radio tracking. AC: interest in tree shrews LE: no one has ever done much field work with them...unusual reproductive system.... every other day she comes to feed them every other day FX: walking to next mist net. ******** at stream ¬ good -butterfly in the net AC: how get involved in RAP LE: involved with CI for long time -on the Board of Directors for 4 years. when RAP started -became the mammalogist...... (good to use some of chatter by the stream) This is the first time I've set nets...can't walk trails AND do mist nets on same night. stay til 11 or 12. . ¿¿¿¿ talk about pureness of water. no people anywhere near it.....straight off the mountaintop. FX: STREAM -good. (14) -(change from split track to MS encoded stereo) (16) good closer water sound with cicada (No) Back to camp with Louise -never seen so many bees, swallowed a lot of moth wing dust. AC: you've set nets out to catch bats. LE: more kinds of bats here than any other kind of mammal in the new world tropics. more bats here than any other kind of mammal. Bats are very important part of the fauna. Here wouldn't expect so many because far away from rainforest. Mosquitoes coming out. I get used to it....mosquitoes. Rather live here than in Washington. I'm really interested in this work all the time.... never tired of it. Always something to see.... firefly, owl hooting in the tree. AC: controversy re. nature of the RAP program LE: I think a lot of those criticisms come from a misunderstanding of what we are trying to do.....we're not trying to do a complete inventory of the flora and fauna¿¿¿ that would be impossible. Because all of us have a lot of field experience, we can get a pretty good idea whether a place is interesting or unusual, whether it's been trashed by logging or grazing, what kind of flora and fauna it has. Ted usually can get about 80% of the bird species.....not trivial.... most people would take months. He just happens to have a particular talent which nobody else in the world has. We have a lot of field experience -each of us 20-25 years. What we are doing is largely comparative..... (Notes truncated)
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- 18 Jun 2008 - Ben Brotman
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- 13 Jun 2008 - Ben Brotman
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- 18 Jun 2008 - Ben Brotman