A trip to study the bats of The Gambia, with Matthew Morton, Robin Budden and Patsy Hughes. We were known locally as 'the Tonso squad', travelling around in a Citroen 2CV with a ladder sticking out of the roof.

Fruit bat Epomorporus gambiensis

Nile crocodile

Little bee-eaters, Abuko

Pied kingfisher

Black terns, off Bakotu

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