Category Archives: critters

Blue-jeans frog

The local population of Oophaga pumilio are called ‘rana blue-jeans’ for obvious reasons. We hear them often, and occasionally spot one just before it ducks under a leaf. I was lucky to find an angle where I could see this … Continue reading

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Yellow-throated toucan

A crowd of these wakes me up most mornings. They seem to like to sit on trees opposite from each other and have yelling contests. I don’t mind, most of the time!

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Oprah says

I was just reading about Central American stingless bees a few days ago, and just now I spotted what looked like an abandoned chunk of electrical conduit sticking out of a tree. Turns out, bees made that conduit!

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Finca Isla, again

Years later, we are back visiting Finca Isla in San Carlos, Costa Rica. I have taken very very many photos and videos, and am going to dump some here. Does this mean I’m going revive this blog? Probably not, but … Continue reading

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Kleptoplastastic

My marine tank is looking pretty dismal — the coral are chronically unhappy and there’s way too much algae. For a while I was secretly nurturing hair algae so I would have an excuse to buy some Elysia slugs. Elysia … Continue reading

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Flying Foxes at Wolli Creek

I showed up in Sydney wanting to see the flying foxes that lived in the Botanical Gardens, but it turns out that they’ve been driven out in recent years (I guess because all of those tiny feet were wearing out … Continue reading

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Bugs!

Here, without warning, are some insect photos from the Brule River and Lake Nebagamon. Most of these just showed up at random, but we spent a while stalking the last one, an Ebony Jewelwing Damselfly. They like to hang out … Continue reading

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Ghost

Some days you just want to sit on a beach and shoot video of ghost crabs. For roughly my whole life I’ve wondered why white-sand beaches only have white crabs and black-sand beaches only have black crabs. I figured that … Continue reading

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El Yunque

At the tail-end of a series of meetings in Puerto Rico, my work department took a tour of El Yunque National Forest. I was extremely excited to find the shrimp along the edge of our swimming hole and spent a … Continue reading

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Lysmata, 30 days

A month later all 7 little Lysmata shrimp are doing fine. Three of them had a netbox to themselves, and two of them were paired up. I didn’t have any trouble with cannibalism, and the shrimp grow slowly but visibly. … Continue reading

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