June 2011
4 posts
CATIE, and other thoughts
I got selected to go East to CATIE, while the rest of our group chills in the cloud forests of Monteverde. It’s a really sweet institute, with a gorgeous lake surrounded by egrets. We aren’t allowed in the grass at night though, because of venomous snakes lurking around. Last night we watched Mexico pummel Costa Rica into a pulp! It was a nice surprise to find that I wasn’t the...
May 2011
4 posts
corcovado
hey ya’ll, sorry i have been MIA, but i am in the Osa Peninsula on the southern coast of Costa Rica at the Corcovado national park and there is shoddy internet. I’ll be here another 3 nights and only then will the bandwidth be good enough to upload some AMAZING pictures. I have seen at least 75 species of a variety of things, several monkeys, macaws, a billion insects and lots of crazy...
Arrival
Im alive and well but my iPod is fried! I’ll make a legit post tomorrow.
March 2011
1 post
meghrup:
I can’t get enough of this song… and the album it’s on.
August 2010
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May 2010
4 posts
Inside The Womb
im1004:
These amazing embryonic animal photographs of dolphins, sharks, dogs, penguins, cats and elephants are from a new National Geographic Documentary called “Extraordinary Animals in the Womb”. The show’s producer, Peter Chinn, used a combination of three-dimensional ultrasound scans, computer graphics and tiny cameras to capture the process from conception to birth. They are the most...
best thing i've learned in animal communication
scenario: you are a human female. you see a human male mating with a female chimpanzee. and after its over, you find the male much more attractive than he was before he mated. sounds crazy right? this is exactly what happens in the amazon mollie. amazon mollies are all females, and they produce clones. they need sperm from sailfin male mollies however, to trigger the change from egg to zygote. The...
April 2010
2 posts
new music is always a blessing →
March 2010
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February 2010
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January 2010
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December 2009
8 posts
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HI, TUMBLR!
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japanese bug fights →
November 2009
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