Part 4: Tirimbina Biological Reserve

Tirimbina Biological Reserve is where I will be studying bats for two months.  We went to a bat lecture when we got there which was really interesting.  Then the next day we learned how chocolate was made historically and went on a walk around the park.

Its really hard to see, but this is a picture of the mist nets used to catch the bats.

This is a fruit eating bat.

This was how the cocoa was ground up- it would take 8 hours to get it to the right consistency.

This is the bridge that you cross to enter the park.

 

Half way across the bridge you can go down to an island.

I'm embarrassed to admit that we all tried termites.  They taste like pepper, it was really gross.

Agouti

These fruits are called granadillas.  The next day I went to a farmer's market with my host mom and we tried one.  They are kinda gross looking but really good.  They are orange when they are ripe.

There were some really cool root systems to deal with all of the water.

I forgot to mention the really cute kittens that were living at the cocoa farm.