New Blue Crayfish

We have a a beautiful new adult White Claw Crayfish in our tanks. She is bright blue in colour which is very rare and thought to be a recessive genetic trait.

As part of their life cycle between May and October Crayfish need to moult their shell to grow. Overnight our crayfish has shed her exoskeleton which is left in the tank and she is an even brighter blue than normal.

The photo is from yesterday before she moulted.

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Support Kate Martin and Sue Lodge on the Jane Tomlinson Walk For All

Good luck to Kate Martin and Sue Lodge from the centre, who are walking 14 miles on the Jane Tomlinson Walk For All Event on Sunday!
Kate will be raising money for Diabetes UK if you would like to support her please go to http://www.justgiving.com/Kate-Martin13

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Bat Rescue

Over the weekend staff at the centre noticed a bat clinging onto a main wall in the daytime. If a bat has been out in daylight and not moved The Bat Conservation Trust (BCT) website had useful information on how to move the bat. (Remember you need a license to handle bats, and need to use gloves as they can transmit rabies though scratches and bites.) The advice said to put a shoe box over the bat and slip cardboard between the wall and box to ease the bat into the box.  Then we added something warm into the box for the bat to lie under, and a small amount of water in a bottle top.

The BCT have a helpline to call so the bat can be taken by volunteers to rehabilitate it and hopefully release back into the wild again. Our bat was taken by the East Lancashire Bat Group, and once fed up a bit should be healthy to be released again at Malham. 

For more information on bats and what to do if you find an injured one look up the BCT. http://www.bats.org.uk/