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The record (an adult, lactating female) was already published in: Ciechanowski M., Wikar Z., Borzym K., Jankowska-Jarek M., Bidziński K., Dudek D., Otczyk K., Celiński D., Misiuna Ł. 2023. Lower montane bat assemblage in a Central European protected area: a case study in the Świętokrzyski National Park, Poland. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica: 75: 395–406. Photo by Zuzanna Wikar. Forearm length = 31.9 mm.

Elephant faeces found in those iconic caves that were carved by forest elephants in soft rocks when using those rocks as a saltlick. Locality popularised by TV series "The Live of Mammals" of Sir David Attenborough himself, who filmed the elephants entering the cave at night in 1980s.

Found on the ground, rescued, everything ok, sex checked, didn't have enough strength to fly on the first day, so I rehabilitated her overday, mainly gave her water, cause she wasn't keen on eating, she got lost in my room and came out the next night, released in Rębiechowo

In the excitement of getting a herp lifer I was a fool and didn't get a photo before trying to grab the critter. It escaped my grasp and dove into the underbrush. I'm so sad. But supposedly field sketches are allowed so here's mine.

I catched it by the tail when I was a kid, cause my mom told me to do so (jokingly, but I didn't get the joke), later I saved it form a vacuum cleaner (my dad was vacuuming at the time), we tried to feed it cheese but it wouldn't eat it (interesting;))