Video de la Selva

Leaving La Selva

Well time is up in this field station. Weather has significantly improved, we now have more rain so days are cooler and there are more butterflies!

I'm leaving this coming Sunday. Since 3 other researchers are leaving as well we hired a van to take us to San Jose and spend the night there. On Monday I will take a bus a go to Peninsula Nicoya, a place that has a bunch of beaches perfect for surfing! I'm still not sure which beaches or towns I'll be traveling to but it should be fun regardless. I'm planning on coming back to San Jose by Saturday May 2 and then take a bus that will take me to Panama.

Animal List

Ok just for fun here is a list of some cool animals I've seen here: if there is something you don't know just google it!

Porcupine
Armadillo
Sloath
Coatí
Pecarí
Howler monkey
Jungle squirrel
Poison dart frog (D. pumilio)
Crested Guan (bird)
Crax rubra (in Colombia known as paujil, another big bird)
King fisher (martín pescador)
Grey eagle
Coral snake
Oropendola (bird that makes a crazy sound)
Toucans (several species)
Bullet ant (their bite is ranked 4+ in the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, it's a scale that a crazy biologist created to measure sting pain, the guy actually got stung by a bunch of animals to create the index, crazy!!)
Caiman or Crocodrile (They have bothe here, I just saw the shinning eyes one night near a small creek)

There are a lot more, specially birds but I don't know the name of most of them...

We are painting easter eggs tomorrow, I'm excited!

Todo bien por acá

Well, everything is going pretty good. My new replacement infrared camera is on its way from the US and it should be here in one week. Work is going as usual, nothing really new.

We are planning to do an easter egg hunt as well as celebrating some of the holy week days here in the station.

Check out the album, I post new pictures in there whenever is possible!!

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