by Carlos | May 27, 2012 | Featured Articles
It is May, one of the hottest months at La Selva. It is also the beginning of the “rainy season” although calling this a “season” is a bit misleading. Perhaps we can call it the intensification of the rains, or the period when rains are more frequent and intense....
by Carlos | May 25, 2012 | Featured Articles
“Knock-knock!” Don’t say “Who’s there?” It is not a knock-knock joke. Someone knocks at my office door with regularity these days. I open and, invariably, it is one of my staff, or a researcher, or a graduate student, saying “Carlos, do you want to see something cool?...
by Carlos | May 10, 2012 | Featured Articles
Some days are a bit more exciting than others. Take today, for example. It’s a regular morning, with the howler monkeys calling on the forest behind the house, their calls reverberating through the trees, echoed by the calls of a separate troop a few hundred meters away. We woke up to the usual mix of bird songs, oropendolas gurgling softy over their recently completed long-hanging basket nests; a band of parakeets chatter while feeding on the top of a tree; three or four large parrots, quietly forage. Crested guans softly calli each other from the trees. Other small birds sing, chitter, warble. It’s 6 a.m. and all’s well…
by Carlos | May 6, 2012 | Featured Articles
I stopped the other day on the side of one of La Selva’s long trails and started to take pictures of what was happening on a section of a fallen tree, glued to one sport because there was so much going on. Three or four groups of people walked by my spot in the hour...
by Carlos | May 2, 2012 | Book Projects
In 1998, biologist David Norman published a delightful guide to the common amphibians of Costa Rica, packed with his wonderful and detailed illustrations and observations on the species’ natural history. I had the pleasure of working with David for a couple of years,...
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