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La Selva: a biological hotspot
The first stop on our journey was La Selva biological station, a hotspot for biodiversity. This was obvious within the first hour of our arrival, where our guided tours pointed out a three-toed sloth, caimans, howler monkeys and wild peccary; we couldn’t have asked for a better start to the trip! At La Selva, we…
es502 January 10th, 2019 Costa Rica bats, census, frogs, sloths, snake
Soaking Students
9th January In hindsight it seems a bit naive of us to have thought the past few days were wet, today the rainforest truly did live up to its name. The topic of the day revolved around conducting censuses of species in the jungle using auditory and visual cues to count the number of different…
sf343 January 19th, 2017 Costa Rica, Costa Rica archive bats, boat, brilliant frog, census, Costa Rica, Field Course, Glass frog, harvestman, La Fortuna, rain, rainforest, swimming, tarantula, terupine