AA CAVE (Eckrich 1984)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

What the bat researcher Michael Eckrich (München, Zoologisches Institut) described as an at least 200 m long -tunnel- may consist of a natural cave passage or a man-made plumbago (graphite) mine. SITUATION (Eckrich 1984 personal communication): Behind the house of Mr. W. D. Shandrasena in the estate (rubber tree plantation) of Dumbara (N06°43': E080°13'), which lies about 20 km in a direct line north-west of Ratnapura (N06°40'58”: E080°23'57” WGS84), from where the site is reached by travelling along the highway A8 via Kiriella (N06°45': E080°16') to Ellawala (note 1), and take a ferry (1984) to get to the estate. CAVE LIFE: Eckrich, Michael (1984 personal communication) had surveyed bats here (Chiroptera).What the bat researcher Michael Eckrich (München, Zoologisches Institut) described as an at least 200 m long -tunnel- may consist of a natural cave passage or a man-made plumbago (graphite) mine. SITUATION (Eckrich 1984 personal communication): Behind the house of Mr. W. D. Shandrasena in the estate (rubber tree plantation) of Dumbara (N06°43': E080°13'), which lies about 20 km in a direct line north-west of Ratnapura (N06°40'58”: E080°23'57” WGS84), from where the site is reached by travelling along the highway A8 via Kiriella (N06°45': E080°16') to Ellawala (note 1), and take a ferry (1984) to get to the estate. CAVE LIFE: Eckrich, Michael (1984 personal communication) had surveyed bats here (Chiroptera).