La Selva Biological Station
We stayed at La Selva Biological Station for one day and one night. La Selva Biological Station is a world famous place due to it's extremely rich flora and fauna. We also headed to La Tirimbina (another biological reserve) to conduct some quadrant tests. We split into two groups, used a quadrant that was about ten by eight meters wide, and counted the number and variety of plant species within the quadrant. We then compared our results with the other group. While at La Tirimbina, we saw a few howler monkeys, many toucans, as well as three sloths, including a baby one. We also saw a hummingbird nest with two small eggs. After returning to La Selva, we had a few hours of free time, which involved lots of exploring. While doing this, we spotted a myriad of birds, as well as a blue-jeans poison dart frog. Then, after dinner, we got to go on a night hike! On the night hike, we had to be extremely careful where we walked and what we touched, as it was pitch dark (save for our flashlights). During the hike, we saw many cyanide filled millipedes, bullet ants, frogs, leaf-cutter ants, wasps, and glow-in-the-dark fungi. The coolest thing we saw, which Abby spotted, was a juvenile Fer-de-Lance snake. Although it was just a juvenile, Andres told us that it moved at over 300 kilometers per hour, and was more dangerous because being a juvenile, it couldn't control its own venom.
We stayed at La Selva Biological Station for one day and one night. La Selva Biological Station is a world famous place due to it's extremely rich flora and fauna. We also headed to La Tirimbina (another biological reserve) to conduct some quadrant tests. We split into two groups, used a quadrant that was about ten by eight meters wide, and counted the number and variety of plant species within the quadrant. We then compared our results with the other group. While at La Tirimbina, we saw a few howler monkeys, many toucans, as well as three sloths, including a baby one. We also saw a hummingbird nest with two small eggs. After returning to La Selva, we had a few hours of free time, which involved lots of exploring. While doing this, we spotted a myriad of birds, as well as a blue-jeans poison dart frog. Then, after dinner, we got to go on a night hike! On the night hike, we had to be extremely careful where we walked and what we touched, as it was pitch dark (save for our flashlights). During the hike, we saw many cyanide filled millipedes, bullet ants, frogs, leaf-cutter ants, wasps, and glow-in-the-dark fungi. The coolest thing we saw, which Abby spotted, was a juvenile Fer-de-Lance snake. Although it was just a juvenile, Andres told us that it moved at over 300 kilometers per hour, and was more dangerous because being a juvenile, it couldn't control its own venom.