==> To go deeper than any caver before. >From World Caving News http://www.zenas.gr/WCN => 17 May 2006.Brett Rapp, >Steve Trewavas and Chris Ross started descending into Western Australia's >Cocklebiddy Cave. one of the world's longest underwater caves. They'll use >underwater scooters to help them push beyond the current 6km mark.They hope to >be the first to get to the end of the cave and take the first 360 degree photo >of an underwater cave. They'll try also to recover a 100,000 year-old bat >skeleton to give to the WA museum.The team will have 3 weeks in the cave, to >give them time for four tries to reach the end.Source:Sarah Wotherspoon >article | Herald Sun. http://www.zenas.gr/site/home/eng_detail.asp?iData=4390 ==> Get Close To Winged Tenants Of Mulu's Gua Rusa >From World Caving News http://www.zenas.gr/WCN => 16 May 2006. Bernama.com >Features May 15, 2006 11:40 AM Get Close To "Winged Tenants" Of Mulu's Gua >Rusa. By Edward Subeng StephenMIRI, May 15 (Bernama) -- Visitors to Mulu >National Park can expect to see a breath-taking aerial performance by "winged >tenants" of the Deer Cave or "Gua Rusa" at this world-famous park.The view >from an observation platform is certainly awe-inspiring as millions of bats >fly out in search of food from Gua Rusa as dusk falls.The observatory is built >at the mouth of the cave, hence visitors can witness bats flying in a tight >stream heading for the Kalimantan-Sarawak border in search of edible jungle >fruits."Not all visitors are lucky enough to see the bats flying in a highly >coordinated pattern as these nocturnal creatures will stay in the cave during >bad weather," said Mulu National Park manager Brian Clark.Deer Cave is home to >a huge population of bats, mostly the wrinkled-lipped species or "Chaerephon >plicata", estimated to number close to three million!Now the park management >has come out with an ingenious initiative to enable visitors to "get real >close to the bats".MONITORING SYSTEMClark said a remote-controlled monitoring >system would be installed in Gua Rusa by end of the year."Visitors can then >conveniently observe the bats in their environment, on a big monitoring screen >within the cave itself."They can see for themselves how the blind creatures >behave and interact in their natural habitat...in short their entire life >cycle will be for all to see," said Clark.He said this would be an important >scientific tool for studies and research work on the bats."I am all for more >of such studies, for us to know more about these blind mammals," Clark told >journalists who attended a four-day ecotourism writing course at the park near >here recently.BAT SPECIESClark said out of 28 bat species found at the Mulu >National Park, a dozen were found living in ... http://www.zenas.gr/site/home/eng_detail.asp?iData=4386 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.54.63.12 with SMTP id l12mr147575wra; Sat, 20 May 2006 08:17:05 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from gr-dns.com ([212.107.6.25]) by mx.googlegroups.com with ESMTP id v23si404450cwb.2006.05.20.08.17.02; Sat, 20 May 2006 08:17:05 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: neutral (googlegroups.com: 212.107.6.25 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Received: from [212.107.6.15] by gr-dns.com with SMTP (HELO perama5) (ArGoSoft Mail Server Pro for WinNT/2000/XP, Version 1.8 (1.8.8.7)); Sat, 20 May 2006 18:16:58 +0300 From: WCN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: WCN Subscriber <SpeleoUnion@googlegroups.com> Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 15:16:56 GMT X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-mailer: AspMail 4.0 4.03 (SMT4F7B01F) Subject: Worldwide Caving News Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ==> To go deeper than any caver before. FromWorld Caving News http://www.zenas.gr/WCN => 17 May 2006.Brett Rapp, Steve Trewavas and Chris Ross started descending into Western Australia's Cocklebiddy Cave. one of the world's longest underwater caves. They'll use underwater scooters to help them push beyond the current 6km mark.They hope to be the first to get to the end of the cave and take the first 360 degree photo of an underwater cave. They'll try also to recover a 100,000 year-old bat skeleton to give to the WA museum.The team will have 3 weeks in the cave, to give them time for four tries to reach the end.Source:Sarah Wotherspoon article | Herald Sun. http://www.zenas.gr/site/home/eng_detail.asp?iData=4390 ==> Get Close To Winged Tenants Of Mulu's Gua Rusa FromWorld Caving News http://www.zenas.gr/WCN => 16 May 2006. Bernama.com Features May 15, 2006 11:40 AM Get Close To "Winged Tenants" Of Mulu's Gua Rusa. By Edward Subeng StephenMIRI, May 15 (Bernama) -- Visitors to Mulu National Park can expect to see a breath-taking aerial performance by "winged tenants" of the Deer Cave or "Gua Rusa" at this world-famous park.The view from an observation platform is certainly awe-inspiring as millions of bats fly out in search of food from Gua Rusa as dusk falls.The observatory is built at the mouth of the cave, hence visitors can witness bats flying in a tight stream heading for the Kalimantan-Sarawak border in search of edible jungle fruits."Not all visitors are lucky enough to see the bats flying in a highly coordinated pattern as these nocturnal creatures will stay in the cave during bad weather," said Mulu National Park manager Brian Clark.Deer Cave is home to a huge population of bats, mostly the wrinkled-lipped species or "Chaerephon plicata", estimated to number close to three million!Now the park management has come out with an ingenious initiative to enable visitors to "get real close to the bats".MONITORING SYSTEMClark said a remote-controlled monitoring system would be installed in Gua Rusa by end of the year."Visitors can then conveniently observe the bats in their environment, on a big monitoring screen within the cave itself."They can see for themselves how the blind creatures behave and interact in their natural habitat...in short their entire life cycle will be for all to see," said Clark.He said this would be an important scientific tool for studies and research work on the bats."I am all for more of such studies, for us to know more about these blind mammals," Clark told journalists who attended a four-day ecotourism writing course at the park near here recently.BAT SPECIESClark said out of 28 bat species found at the Mulu National Park, a dozen were found living in ... http://www.zenas.gr/site/home/eng_detail.asp?iData=4386 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SpeleoUnion http://groups.google.ru/group/SpeleoUnion -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
