Herpetological Monitoring

For putali (butterfly) monitoring we built up 

2 butterfly bait traps.

Raj installing the butterfly trap

Banana bait for the butterfly trap

Pitfall traps with drift fences are widely used for trapping amphibians and reptiles in terrestrial habitats. Pitfall traps are generally round or square containers (cans or plastic buckets) of varying sizes, that are placed in the ground with the tops flush with the surface of the soil. Drift fences serve to divert the animals into the traps.

 

Digging pit holes for the buckets

Installing the drift fence

Voilà!

This is not easy but I am trying...
Snake: sarpa
Cobra: goman
Frog: bhyahguto
Butterfly: putali

Dog: kukur
Cat: birahlo
Leopard: cituwah
Bear: bhahlu

Cobra hunt

Wednesday- Thursday Oct 8-9, 2014

On Wednesday we hike down to Kimchi in order to join our herpetologist (amphibians and reptiles specialist) with the aim to locate and capture a King Cobra on the loose...

The team on the mission...

Some residents have seen it and are getting concern about such a big snake in the surroundings. The snake skin was fund near its den.

King Cobra skin

We spent 2 days observing and searching an area where the goman (cobra) was last seen.

Our Herpetologist on the hunt...

At the end, we did not captured the beast but while collecting some residents accounts we were welcomed to one resident's house for a cup of kahlo ceyah (black tea) and enjoyed a mitho (delicious) dahl bhaht (Nepal's nat'l dish: lentils, rice and vegetable curry).

Our host's house for tea time

Tea House

At the end, we did not leave with empty hands; a frog was fund and added to the inventory.

Frog in a glass

Everything about Mr Frog....