Friday, July 18, 2014

We know it's been a while but...

We made it back safe to Colgate! We know we haven't posted in a while (sorry about that!). The last couple weeks in Costa Rica were very busy! We plan to update the blog in the next couple weeks with some info about how our last few weeks at La Selva went! Spoiler alert: it involves a lot of lab work, some climbing, a really cool night hike, a really intense day hike, an awesome rafting adventure, and an amazing visit to an active volcano. Stay tuned! To start, let's talk about this incredible night hike, shall we?

As you know from previous posts, during our time at La Selva, we became friends with a group of people names Brian, Meaghan and Michelle. )Meaghan is a grad student and Michelle is her field assistant, and they're both studying Pumilios (aka the blue jean frog, the cutest poisonous frog in the world), and Brian is a Ph.D student in Herpetology, who studies reptiles and amphibians). One exceptionally rainy night, we went out to La Selva's experimental swamp to look for frogs...










Before we even left the lab clearing, we had out first find of the night. We saw a boa constrictor climbing a tree directly outside of the cabins we were staying in...
  











We found this brown frog right outside of the swamp. It's shaped like a guitar pick, and is a pretty rare sighting.



















This gorgeous green frog was huge! Lindsay caught this one, she's turned into a true frog wrangler.

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