Spotting an Agouti
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Sunday, Feb 22 we visited Carara National Park. The forest in this park is a transition between the seasonal dry forest to the north and lowland rainforest to the south. Carara national park is not far from the Pacific Ocean and it is about 11,600 acres in size. See Carara info for some basic facts. This forest is much different than the one we saw at La Reserva in San Ramon. It goes through a pronounced dry season. One effect of this is to reduce the epiphyte load on the trees. The mean annual temperature is higher as well. This time of year there are many interesting fruits, seeds, and seed pods. One of the objects of our visit here, as well to other forest sites, is to begin to examine some of the factors that influence forest structure and animal life histories. When go Bocas del Toro we will be in a lowland rainforest and we will see some pronounced differences in that forest as compared to Carara and La Reserva. (By the way, we are going to Bocas del Toro on the Wednesday the 25th and not Thursday the 26th as it is stated in one of the itineraries. That was a typo.)
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