Cocobolo Nature

We're Cocobolo Nature Reserve, 50km NE of #PanamaCity teeming with wildlife and biologists having a blast! Check our #fieldwork, tag us @ #CocoboloNature

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We also adapted the hunters chair as a #Tech4Wildlife observation platform. Using arborist climbing tech we installed it at 10 to 15 meters providing a point to make nocturnal observations of both arboreal and terrestrial animals.

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CREA's Margay Project is employing #Tech4Wildlife adapted from other industries, we used a rock climbing hanging platform to conduct nocturnal observations.

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CREA's Margay Project relies on arborist tech to safely access rainforest arboreal habitat to check our cameratrap array. #Tech4Wildlife #petzlfoundation #yalecordage #dmmwales @dbtree

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#Tech4Wildlife still needs human drivers, maintaining our arboreal cameratrap array takes a bit more effort than a ground based equivalent.

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CREA's Margay Project cameratraps being put to innovative use 20 meters up a tree. Arboreal cameratrapping is proving to be incredibly productive for rainforest research opening up the previously understudied habitat. #Tech4Wildlife @Shaldonzoo @WelshMountainZo

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Margay Project researchers using #Tech4Wildlife from the arborist community to help reach the canopy realm. Our cameratraps are revealing a hidden vertical world. #petzlfoundation #dmmwales #yalecordage

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CREA's Margay Project researcher using #Tech4Wildlife to climb into Panama's rainforest canopy to install cameratraps. #petzlfoundation #yalecordage #dmmwales

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CREA's Margay Project is joining #Tech4Wildlife photo challenge. We're using a fusion of tech from industries outside conservation to improve on traditional observation methods to learn more about margay and other elusive rainforest canopy critters. @WILDLABSNET

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There is always something to see when you open your eyes in the rainforest.
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A beautiful close up of a male violet-crowned Woodnymph, a species of hummingbird we often find at Cocobolo.
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We often associate crabs with the sea but there are many fresh water crabs like this one found in one of Cocobolo Nature Reserve's many streams.
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Woodpeckers are frequent visitors around camp but despite their noisy drumming and harsh calls they are not always easy to spot. This beauty, a crimson-crested woodpecker was photographed by CREA team member Kurt Niznik.
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Geoffroy's Tamarins, can be easily mistaken for a flock of birds as they pass through the trees surrounding camp at Cocobolo field station. Their calls are a series of high pitched chirrups, squeaks and whistles. We love being watched whilst we work by these little guy's.
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Have you ever considered what a 3D world the rain forest is? Nature is all around you, birds flying high up in the sky or inches from the ground, snakes coiled around the upper branches of towering trees, or insects under every leaf. Trying to spot all these fabulous inhabitants

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Three female Great Curassow in Cocobolo Nature Reserves understory.
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Whilst we are getting excited about our margay arboreal study starting it's not the only research going on at Cocobolo Nature Reserve. We are continually monitoring a number of species including frogs, snakes, plants and birds. Looking at the entire forest ecosystem gives a much

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Introducing the star of our upcoming study..... the beautiful and little known margay, Leopardus wiedii,
This amazing image was taken on one of Cocobolo Nature Reserve's camera traps a few years back. Just look at that lovely long tail, designed to help the margay balance whils

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The rain forest is known for its large majestic trees but of course all that moisture means there are lots of fungi growing.
This is a type of shelf fungus growing on a rotting tree.
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Orchids grow prolifically in Panama, this stunning example is Gongora leucochila found from Mexico to Panama. An epiphyte, it grows on the trunks and branches of other plants getting all it needs to grow from the debris and air around it. #plants #botany #wildlife #rainforest #co

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There are a lot of flycatchers that call Cocobolo home and it can be pretty difficult to identify them, especially when you only get a fleeting glance as they disappear into the foliage. However the Sulphur-rumped flycatcter with its yellow rump and tawny chest and habit of hangi