Bat Ecotourism Potential At Wind Cave Nature Reserve, Sarawak Through Bat Conservation Study

The study conducts roost site mapping, roost sites preferences, bat assemblage and bat acoustic call at the Wind Cave Nature Reserve (WCNR) from 2013 to 2015. The area lack information on bats and the existing information has not been updated for quite some time. The study utilizes the non-consumptive method that uses observation, data logger and the wildlife acoustic song meter to collect data. The data obtained are important as baseline data for future management and conservation of the bats species at the WCNR. This information also provides additional interesting information to tourists. This paper is a collection of the ecological studies of cave-dwelling bats that have been conducted at the WCNR. The findings from the study such as species list; and a map that show the location of the bats and their roost sites preferences can help increase awareness towards the conservation of bats at WCNR to promote better ecotourism benefit

The Emergence Survey of Bats at Wind Cave Nature Reserve, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo

Bat emergence survey at Wind Cave Nature Reserve was conducted for nine days from October 20 I 4 to April 20 J 5. A total of I, 908 echolocation calls were obtained from 11 species of bats. One species, Penthetor lucasi does not emit echolocation frequency thus the survey on this species was conducted by observation only. The 11 species of insect-eating bats was Rhinolophus affinis, R. borneensis, R. luctus, Hipposideros larvatus, H. diadema, H. cervinus, H. coxi, H. galeritus, H ater, Myotis horsfieldii and M. montivagus. The most abundance echolocation call recorded was from R. affinis with 951 calls while the most abundance bats can be observed was P. lucasi. The least echolocation calls recorded was H. ater. Most of the species emerged between 1850 hour to 1950 hour. The emergence activity atarted as early as 1800 hour and last can last until 2000hour. Pairwise comparison showed that there are signifant different on the number of call between entrance I and 2, entrance 2 and 3 and entrance 1 and3

Non-volant small mammal data from fragmented forests in Terengganu State

This data article is about non-volant small mammal (squirrel, rat and tree shrew) capture from fragmented forest understories within sub-urban areas of Setiu (Peladang Agro Resort and Setiu Wetland Research Station) and inhabited areas of Hulu Terengganu (Saok and Lasir waterfalls) that are situated in Terengganu State, Peninsular Malaysia. Fruits like banana and oil palm were individually placed into each cage before the cages were fastened onto three to five meter height tree branches. The traps were also spatially distributed about ten meters from each other. Under this installation, fifty baited traps were used during the twenty-four nights of sample collection. All animals caught were distinguished by morphology and released at the same location it was caught. The understory data comprise of seven non-volant mammal species from family groups Sciuridae, Muridae and Tupaiidae. Overall, Callosciurus notatus (n = 17, 39%) were dominant in the capture pool from all sites. Comparatively, Sundascriurus tenuis (n = 2, 4%) and Rattus rattus (n = 4, 9.3%) were restricted to Saok Waterfalls and Setiu Wetland. Banana and oil palm fruits did not attract any small mammals during the Lasir Waterfall (Hulu Terengganu) survey. All data were interpret into Shannon, Simpson, Margalef, Menhinik and Evenness indices to individually or collectively distinguish small mammal variety in Terengganu State. Keywords: Herbivore, Cage trap, Tropics, Catch and release, Understor