In Search of Night Life
In which we take an expedition deep into an area of unstudied rainforest, and document our discoveries. At night. This is the first part in a series about The Field Museum's Rapid Inventory...
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- So every night the herp team goes out between the hours of like 7 and 3am looking for snakes, and frogs, and salamanders. And then they bring them back to camp, so we're gonna go with them and see what we find. - Ooh, bat. - (Emily) What was that? - (Emily) A bat? - Yeah. - So Markus found this Anolis sleeping up here on the twig. Sleeping, or pretending to be a stick, hoping that we won't see him. He's looking at me like, "please don't pick me up." "Please don't pick me up, please don't see me." For one thing, it doesn't blend in with its stick very well. It did a pretty poor job pickin' a stick to sit on. But it's bright green and it has these lines on it. It's an Anolis transversalis? - (Ma...
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- So every night the herp team goes out between the hours of like 7 and 3am looking for snakes, and frogs, and salamanders. And then they bring them back to camp, so we're gonna go with them and see what we find. - Ooh, bat. - (Emily) What was that? - (Emily) A bat? - Yeah. - So Markus found this Anolis sleeping up here on the twig. Sleeping, or pretending to be a stick, hoping that we won't see him. He's looking at me like, "please don't pick me up." "Please don't pick me up, please don't see me." For one thing, it doesn't blend in with its stick very well. It did a pretty poor job pickin' a stick to sit on. But it's bright green and it has these lines on it. It's an Anolis transversalis? - (Ma...
