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Donna Mullen

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
221 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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This time of year, because the mothers are having their babies.

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So it's very busy now, kind of the first of May to the end of September.

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It's going to be busy because the bats, like the mothers, they actually have to eat about a third of their body weight every night.

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They have to eat thousands of insects.

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Every night.

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Yeah, to keep their food supplies up.

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And so it's very busy.

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In the wintertime, they go into hibernation.

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So, yeah, so it's grand and quiet then.

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Now, actually, with kind of global warming, there's a lot less hibernation than there used to be.

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But they drop down their temperatures.

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They don't need so much food.

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And it's got all the people who survey bats go on holidays.

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We take our downtime then.

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Listen, you're very good.

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You're very good.

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But listen, no, actually, the ones that I need, because they're kind of official surveys.

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I'm using one yet that actually takes sound analysis.

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So it will be a kind of a good step up for that.

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But no, listen, but thank you.