Forman Rainforest

We will be tweeting from the rainforest using a satellite messenger. Check out what we discover each day.

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📷 Join us at 9:40 a.m. TODAY for Forman’s Rainforest Project Dissertation Day! Click the link below to access the live Ustream.📷

https://t.co/JIuEGtKKE5

#formanschool #dissertation #rainforest #project #livestream

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Mud soccer game after a day of work! #CostaRica #FormanSchool #RainforestProject

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Beautiful hike today! #rainforestproject #CostaRica

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The Bird Team's favorites are the scaly-throated foliage-gleaner and the white-throated spadebill! #rainforestproject #birds #costarica #rainforest

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The Mammals Team caught 9 coatis and multiple big cats on trail cams! Reps & Amps Team caught a local snake called a red-ringed snail eater! #costarica #rainforestproject

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We're at 4,000 feet and catching many new species! #rainforestproject #costarica

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Hello from the Wild Cat Team! We're out doing tracking today! #wildcats #rainforestproject #costarica

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Eva '23 holding a brown vine snake and Jorie '24 with a white collared manakin! #rainforestproject #costarica #formanschool

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We made it! Here we are setting up camera traps–hoping for pictures of rare mammals, particularly wild cats! #rainforestproject #formanschool #cats #tropicaldeforestation #costarica

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Mammal Population Survey in Lowlands and Highlands of Costa Rica https://t.co/53JgsfdHvh

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Variance in Herpetofauna populations of Costa Rica in regard to altitude: the Highlands vs. the Lowlands https://t.co/HBpwhha65Q

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2020 Rainforest team at 9,000 feet!

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Yesterday was the last day of research collecting camera traps and netting for birds. It's been an amazing site and loved waking up facing Chirripo Mountain!

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The Bird Team caught:
Buteo platyoterus, Parkier trotacilla, Pezopetes catitalis, and Thraupis episcopus! #gobirds #rainforestproject

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We caught a juvenile Sceloporus malachiticus and have spotted a large male! #rainforestproject

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Amazing species finds yesterday! Montane species many of us have never seen before!Found possible tree nest of the leopardus tigrinus. Motion cams are in place.

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Bird team caught: Buteo platypterus, Parkeia trotacilla, Pezopetes catitalis, Thraupis Episcopus!

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We are at a high elevation! We caught a juvenile Sheloporus malachiticus, and have spotted a large male. We hope to catch it!

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From our camp we can see Chirriopo- the highest peak in South America. We also found scat from either a Leopardis tigrinya or Leopardus wiedii!

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We caught this mammal in a java hart trap last night- canopy dweller Potos flavus!!