when National Geographic asked me to
photograph this bat story I was really
excited because it was an opportunity to
work with some really interesting
scientists like Rutger ego and I get to
work with the species I’ve never seen
before very little has been studied
about these bats and so I was really
interested in figuring out how can I
show these bats predatory behavior in
captivity or in the wild so I’m working
on getting this flight cage set up for
tonight varn rodrigo are catching a crow
top dress for us to film and record
inside this flight cage so what we’ve
got is a camera flashes infrared lights
continuous lights bat detectors all of
this stuff is to try to catch a crow top
dress a wooly false vampire bat in the
action of hunting of prey so they’ve
actually brought lab mice from the
University of Mexico and this is all to
try to better understand how this bat
hunts in the wild how does a bad
approach how does a bat kill the prey
the idea here is to recreate in the
environment outside so when the mouse is
moving around it’s going to be creating
some rustling sounds and we think that’s
there’s one photograph in particular
that encapsulate this story I’m trying
to show the temple and the bat where you
can see and identify both things I’ve
got one light that’s gonna light the bat
from below by letting it from below I
can actually project its shadow like a
bat signal against the wall of the
temple now from the very beginning I’ve
been studying how these bats leave their
roost I set up infrared video cameras
and I’ve watched them every night it
turns out for that first few meters as
they leave they all follow the same path
so I’ve got my sensor in place
I’ve got my lights in place now we just
kind of wait you know these scientists
are just getting started trying to
understand these bats and so to be able
to come here and actually contribute
something to understanding these animals
through photography that’s really why I do what I do
photograph this bat story I was really
excited because it was an opportunity to
work with some really interesting
scientists like Rutger ego and I get to
work with the species I’ve never seen
before very little has been studied
about these bats and so I was really
interested in figuring out how can I
show these bats predatory behavior in
captivity or in the wild so I’m working
on getting this flight cage set up for
tonight varn rodrigo are catching a crow
top dress for us to film and record
inside this flight cage so what we’ve
got is a camera flashes infrared lights
continuous lights bat detectors all of
this stuff is to try to catch a crow top
dress a wooly false vampire bat in the
action of hunting of prey so they’ve
actually brought lab mice from the
University of Mexico and this is all to
try to better understand how this bat
hunts in the wild how does a bad
approach how does a bat kill the prey
the idea here is to recreate in the
environment outside so when the mouse is
moving around it’s going to be creating
some rustling sounds and we think that’s
there’s one photograph in particular
that encapsulate this story I’m trying
to show the temple and the bat where you
can see and identify both things I’ve
got one light that’s gonna light the bat
from below by letting it from below I
can actually project its shadow like a
bat signal against the wall of the
temple now from the very beginning I’ve
been studying how these bats leave their
roost I set up infrared video cameras
and I’ve watched them every night it
turns out for that first few meters as
they leave they all follow the same path
so I’ve got my sensor in place
I’ve got my lights in place now we just
kind of wait you know these scientists
are just getting started trying to
understand these bats and so to be able
to come here and actually contribute
something to understanding these animals
through photography that’s really why I do what I do
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