Three students. Ten months. One mission.

 



Photos from Malaysia

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We found these leaves growing up the side of a tree like ivy. It is another example of some of the similarities we have seen between back home and in the jungle.

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Jamie, Paul and staff member David smile as they radio track bats during the middle of a huge rainstorm. Eventually, the rain got so bad that they had to turn back and call it a night.

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After catching this insect eating bat inside a harp net, we fed it a nice snack of a little white and green moth that happened to be walking across the trap.

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This water gauge was hung by Rakhmad (one of the student staff members) was nearly full when we checked it. After the rains, there was only about one inch left at the top. The measurement total reached 19.2 cm!

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One bad thing after a storm here in the rain forest is that the leaches come out. Tyler shows off his wound after returning from a leach-infested day of work. Leaches secrete a substance that stops a scab from forming right away.