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Hey Guys! I was just sitting here and procrastinating on twitter and came across these fantastic videos. Right off the bat, I’ll just come out and say that my artistic talents are so horrible that I couldn’t even pretend to take credit for these videos if I wanted to. In any case, here is my big disclaimer: . . . → Read More: Inspirational travel videos! As most of you should know by now, I spent just under three months in the rainforest of Bioko Island working at a field assistant for the BBPP. One of the perks of the job is that we worked in virtually unexplored areas; we hiked into areas that even the locals don´t even frequent. Being . . . → Read More: Exploring the Island: The Siopi River 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! 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. Step number 1: Set up a signal fire. Step 2: Sleep on the beach until the boat gets here. Step 3: Frantically flag down the boat with any available materials…ie: neon yellow rain jacket. Step 4: Desperately try to get an overloaded boat out over the breaking waves and safely into the open ocean. Step 5: Leaving the bay. Note . . . → Read More: How to leave a rocky, wave-filled, bay on the southern beaches of Bioko Island. 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! |
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