Forest Ecology at Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary
Forest Ecology was a full and fabulous week!
We were pleased to have Erik Lindquist from Messiah College join us to teach our forest ecology course. We quickly learned how serious and passionate he is about herpetology and to not touch his “snake stick,” a multi-purpose tool used for reptile hunting! Erik taught us how to identify the dangerous ones, and love the harmless ones. We headed down to Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary on Sunday and stayed out there until Wednesday. It was an exciting week of learning all kinds of new things about Belize’s tropical forest and its inhabitants. It was sunup to sundown learning experience. We were up early to go birding, and up late checking out the animal tracks, reptiles and other night life of the forest.
The students did excellent group research projects while we were there. Some of the questions pursued were: How does the micro-environment of the cercropia tree differ from the cohune palm? How long does it take leaf cutter ants to reform their trail on an obstructed path? How does soil temperature differ throughout the forest? And which shampoo attracts the most mosquitoes?
Cockscomb is a beautiful part of the country and we all enjoyed hiking up to the incredible view spots and unbelievable waterfalls.
Check out lots of our great photos from Cockscomb:
Forest Ecology pics from Cockscomb
We were pleased to have Erik Lindquist from Messiah College join us to teach our forest ecology course. We quickly learned how serious and passionate he is about herpetology and to not touch his “snake stick,” a multi-purpose tool used for reptile hunting! Erik taught us how to identify the dangerous ones, and love the harmless ones. We headed down to Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary on Sunday and stayed out there until Wednesday. It was an exciting week of learning all kinds of new things about Belize’s tropical forest and its inhabitants. It was sunup to sundown learning experience. We were up early to go birding, and up late checking out the animal tracks, reptiles and other night life of the forest.
The students did excellent group research projects while we were there. Some of the questions pursued were: How does the micro-environment of the cercropia tree differ from the cohune palm? How long does it take leaf cutter ants to reform their trail on an obstructed path? How does soil temperature differ throughout the forest? And which shampoo attracts the most mosquitoes?
Cockscomb is a beautiful part of the country and we all enjoyed hiking up to the incredible view spots and unbelievable waterfalls.
Check out lots of our great photos from Cockscomb:
Forest Ecology pics from Cockscomb
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