Jason Preble

Review of Japanese Bat Research & Conservation日本におけるコウモリの研究と保全のレビューHello lovely bat research supporters. First off, a quick update on the diet research; we have sent in our last batch of sample...

Hello everyone,I apologize for the delay in updating you all, but unfortunately the lab doing the DNA sequencing of our extracted fecal DNA is shutdown until further notice because of the current p...

DNA Extractions Complete! 抽出終了！It might have seemed like I disappeared after receiving the financial support of this project's generous backers, but I'm still here and have been busy getting straig...

Hey everybody, we did it! Yesterday, the crowdfunding campaign came to a close and $2,921 were raised to study Okinawa’s cute little bats! Thanks to you all, I can now get working on figuring out w...

We've reached our target funding amount! A big thank you to everyone who supported the project by backing or sharing it. This really wouldn't have been possible without you all. If anyone would sti...

With only five coming on four days left, we’re coming towards the finish line with 75% of funds raised! I hope we get there, because we’re so close! Couldn’t have gotten this far without you all. T...

Progress and Wing-shape Hypotheses プログレスと翼の形に関する仮説We are now over half-way through the crowdfunding campaign, with 64% of the funds necessary for this project raised with 10 days left to reach 100%...

コウモリは生活時間の半分以上をねぐらで過ごすため、コウモリにとってはねぐら場所が最も重要な生息地です（餌場は2番目に重要）。コウモリの種類によって利用するねぐらの種類が変わったりするので、コウモリを保護するために、まずはそのコウモリ種に必要な休息場所を解らなければなりません。ねぐら場所を見つけるために、主な研究対象種であるリュウキュウテングコウモリとヤンバルホオヒゲコウモリの個体に小さなVH...

やっと沖縄島でヤンバルホオヒゲコウモリを捕獲できた後に、去年沖縄テレビと撮影したビデオを見せてあげたいと思います。残念ながら、テレビのクルーが調査に参加された時にコウモリを捕獲できませんでした。。。しかし、ニュースにコウモリのビデオも写真も少し表示され、フィールドワークがどのようなものかがわかります。「河川・環境シリーズ 」は沖縄テレビの隔週に放送される、色々な環境に関する話のシリーズで、コ...