The Bat Girls Give Us A Biology Lesson
Not much enthusiasm remains for learning in the classroom after the graduation ceremonies signal the impending end of the school year--so we take it outside for the last week of classes.
UNR graduate students Stephanie and Chelsea give us a lesson on trapping small mammals. CKD photo
In preparation for our end-of-the-year school field trip, Denio School gathers at Quinn River Ranch on Friday morning June 2nd to receive words of wisdom from Stephanie Leslie and her assistant Chelsea in the biology of our population of small mammals, reptiles, bats, birds, and what-have-you. The Bat Girls, as we have begun calling them, are University of Nevada-Reno graduate students recreating a biological survey done in 1909 in this area. They've earned their nickname because of their nocturnal habit of lurking by our gravel pit, trying to net bats as they come in for water.
Stephanie shows us the proper way to capture a mouse. CKD phto