murcielagos y oso hormigero

More exciting animals. Last week there was an ant eater out in the forest near the lab clearing. so i had a little crocodile hunter moment where i went out into the forest to track her and take pictures... and this week i went out with the bat researchers one night and caught a few bats. they are really neat animals. the researchers i was with are looking at diversity of bat species in the primary rain forest. i got to hike out to where they were set up at night and ran across the BIGGEST FER DE LANCE i have seen so far at la selva. she was HUGE! and hunting right along the trail. so it was an exciting evening. and an hour or so after i left for bed, they caught a vampire bat! too bad a missed it. but somehow i think my 8 hours of sampling in the swamp the next day would have been even worse if i had stayed up past midnight.

anyhow, i'm exhausted and its off to bed! today i had hiked 5 miles through the forest (which feels like more when you factor in mud and humidity) and had re-visited three of my sites to take denisometer measures all by 1o am. then went back out into the field after lunch to hike to the moveable tower of the torres research project. so i'm beat. and its off to san jose to visit ro tomorrow, then beaches on the caribbean side and panamA (the accent is on the 'a') with mo for a week.

enjoy the pictures! there will be more coming when i return. to make you all horribly jealous.