Birds of the Tropics
This is the national bird of Costa Rica
Clay Colored Thrush
This plant family can move throughout the day.
marantaceae
What is the correct name for the two types of sloths Corrine talked about?
two-fingered and three-fingers (will also accept scientific names)
what are you supposed to say when you eat a pineapple.
al dente! (jk)
Despite being about 1 in long, these small insects have been known to cause lots of harm at La Selva.
Bullet ant or Bala
Great Curasow
what are the two stilt palms
(I will count spelling...)
Socratea and Iriartea
What was the genus of the bat and the plant family piper presented on?
Carolina genus and Piperaceae
what is the morphology of a pineapple?
This plant at Palo Verde has large thorns and is home to many ants.
Acacia Tree
This is an action that birds do when they catch the insects in the air then return to a perch to feed.
Sallying
The one carnivorous plant at Palo Verde.
bladderworts or Utricularia gibbia
What are the two ailments that macey's fern has research on?
COVID and UTI
What was the colloquial name for the cacao plant before colonialization?
fruit/drink of the gods
this creature has over 900 species in its family, all producing silk to line their burrows.
Tarantula
This is an example of an adaptation that birds at Palo Verde have that birds at La Selva lack.
(I will decided in real time lolzies)
Brief increases in solar irradiance that occur in understories of an ecosystem when sunlight is able to directly reach the ground.
Sun Flecks
what are the three casts of leafcutter ants
minima, maxima, and media
name three things that made the pineapple plantation we visited organic.
(kt will judge you.)
these are the seven venomous snakes at La Selva
Fer De Lance, Bushmaster, Eyelash Viper, Coral spp. x3, Hognose Pit Viper.
Hummingbirds have mites that fly out of their nostrils and onto plants. What are the two necessary components for this action to occur.
Amplitude and Voltage
a fleshy hollow receptacle that develops into a multiple fruit, as in the fig.
Syconium
What are the three possible scenarios when mantled howler monkeys leave their prenatal groups?
1. remain solitaire. 2. make a new group with other solitaires, 3. join an existing group.
why is the taste of the pineapple different in grocery stores near us.
AND
name 3 ways to pick out a good pineapple at the grocery store
- fermentation
AND
- equal-sized fruits, green coloring, no scent, there's probably others I forget.
This type of mosquito spreads malaria.
by the bite of an infected female Anopheles mosquito