While the ant crew are filming at La Selva, I’m spending a few days in another part of Costa Rica - the extraordinary Pacific dry forest of Guanacaste conservation area* - investigating the possibility of another film (that would be our fourth in this area).
This forest type was once found along the entire Central American Pacific coast, and now exists only as a few fragments, this being probably the largest.
At this time of year, it’s bone dry, few of the trees have leaves, and yet there are still typical rainforest animals living here, parrots, tapirs, jaguars, three species of monkey - and vampire bats.
Last night, testing the thermal camera allowed us to watch as vampires landed near white tailed deer, and hop towards them. The deer knew exactly what was going on, and chased the vampires away.
The Director
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3 comments:
Oh! Oh! Oh! Thermal images of the vampires please!
Sorry XL, it'll be a while before we can show them - but it'll be worth the wait
the Director
This image was taken from a thermal video. Is it possible to have access the video or at least the part of the interaction between deer and vampire bat? Thanks in advance. I´m a Brazilian bat biologist
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