In fact this is a standard handling technique for examining a bats genitals, which is important in sexing and ID
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This is going around in circles.
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I don't know the species but I picked up on it because the bat does not look happy.
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Maybe you should discuss with the ethical committees from LAtin American countries towards a standardization and protocol to be disseminated about how to handle bats. I have my own experience and it tells me that small fragile bats don't cope well with
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pressuring them against surfaces, but my experience is valid for LAtin American bats. Not sure that it would be valid for families and species in different continents. Ectophylla alba is one of the smallest members of the Phyllostomidae family, which probably makes it quite
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fragile to being pressured against surfaces.
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