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| Preserved Bat (Rousettus amplixicaudatus) |
Our ecology
subject instructed by Mr. Facundo Rey M. Ladiao conducted a night class to
identify the different avian species present in the LNU dormitory using net
trap. The biology students caught five fruit-eating bats (Rousettus amplixicaudatus). The bats caught were preserved using
the process of taxidermy – creating the lifelike representation of the animals.
The bats was first skinned in a process like removing the skin from a chicken,
after separating the skin from the flesh the students used borax to preserved
its body. Then it was dried under the
sun for at least one day, after drying process the body of the bats was filled
with cotton to form its original shape and sewed. Taxidermy is great help for biology students
to preserve their specimen and this kind of preservation has more sense of
achievement because of doing it in your own.
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