During one of the last days of my fieldwork time on Bioko Island, a coworker and I were lucky enough to stumble upon two wild grey african parrots just hanging out in a tree. They were more than happy to chirp away for us; it was amazing to see them in the wild and not in . . . → Read More: African Grey Parrots in the wild!
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So I have to admit that I never got to see any turtles while I was at Bioko; they were coming up onto the beaches to lay their eggs at night, but occasionally, one would still be out of water during the early morning hours. A coworker and friend of mine got some short videos of one . . . → Read More: Turtles and things. Hello people of the blogosphere! Just an update on how my life is going. I got to South Africa a few days ago and have settled in nicely at the research outpost on the Loskop Dam Reserve, where I’m working as an assistant for a study on the local vervet monkey population. Living on the reserve is pretty . . . → Read More: Hello from South Africa Want to know what my typical day entailed during my tenure as a BBPP field assistant? Take a look at these two videos, which I took during our primate census. This happened to be a really unique monkey encounter – I only saw drills four times in two months, and it was pure luck that I . . . → Read More: Primate censusing – a day in my life with the BBPP Just posted an article on the Naples Daily News, which talks about how we would census for monkeys, and also refers to these two videos below (which are both videos of monkey encounters). Enjoy! . . . → Read More: Monkey business. . . . → Read More: Rainforest rain, part two! . . . → Read More: One-on-one from the rainforest trail! Every night during my stay at the MEGI compound, I would watch the fruit bats fly all over the sky in search of food. For four nights in a row, they came out exactly . . . → Read More: On clockwork. The logistics of preparing a long-term expedition are not a cake-walk. The people organizing the BBPP expedition have spent days trying to organize porters (from a nearby village), spent hours trying to barter and order food and replacement parts, organize volunteers, and figure out paperwork and identification passes for each volunteer. Overall, the BBPP and its employees are preparing . . . → Read More: Preparing for Adventure. 
While walking through the Odenwald (Germany) today, I tried to take a snapshot of a cool looking branch on the ground. As I was bending down to take a closer look, I realized a small mouse was literally frozen to the side of the wood.Because of the below-zero temperatures, I quickly snapped a picture and moved . . . → Read More: Frozen in Germany: an accidental snapshot. |
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