Pretty blue marble
This is a fairly recent image from a Russian satellite… How about we start teaching happiness and conservation to every child on the planet so that we will be able to feed the 9 billion humans we will have by 2050 and not kill each other first? Imagine. And it wouldn’t need to cost […]
Birthdays and belly dances
The birthday bash was held at a Lebanese restaurante in the city so we could see some bellydancing. The birthday girl demonstrated some moves of her own.
How it’s done
This guy was moving from table to table with his guitar. He sat with us and provided our soundtrack for about a half hour…and then gave NT a birthday smooch before moving on.
Fireworks
Naming your research bats has to have some fun in it. I heard this one was named for a song. Patty Jones was working with this guy in relation to her robo-frog project. When I worked for Clairol (long ago….) I was interested in how they came up with product names for cosmetics and hair […]
Bag of air
These frogs are actually very impressive little sculptures. They use a modified urinary catheter to get the motion. That’s speaker under the frog to emit male tungara calls and entice the bats.
Robo-frogs
There were numerous researchers here in past months who are/were using “robo-frogs” for a variety of studies. These frogs were designed by Barrett Klein and Joey Stein and are a replica of a tungara frog with an inflatable vocal sac. The initial research was to work out how mate choice influences evolution…but then the bat […]
Tentmakers
These bats are what Teague O’Mara is studying here in Gamboa. They roost in tents that they make by perforating the fronds of the palm leaves…He’s studying their communication…flavoring foods with oils and flavors like cinnamon and chocolate. He wants to find out if there is some communication that happens in the roost that affects […]
Tim Burton in Panama
Something about this caterpillar reminded me of BEETLEJUICE. Not sure if it’s related to the butterflies below.
The lab downstairs
There are several labs below my apartment in 183, Gamboa. A butterfly lab is one.