{"id":8,"date":"2005-04-26T19:51:41","date_gmt":"2005-04-26T23:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/crofoot\/2005\/04\/26\/locks-stocks-and-two-smoking-barrels-"},"modified":"2012-05-04T10:16:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T14:16:28","slug":"locks-stocks-and-two-smoking-barrels-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/crofoot\/2005\/04\/26\/locks-stocks-and-two-smoking-barrels-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Locks, stocks and two smoking barrels"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It seems like a really long time since I’ve posted anything here, and
\nthere are so many cool things I’ve done in the last couple of months
\nthat it’s hard to figure out where to start.  Time seems to be
\nspeeding up now, which is a sure sign that I’m closer to the end of my
\ntime in Panama than the beginning.  Supposedly the dry season is
\nover and the rains are on their way.  It certainly seemed like
\nthat two weeks ago, when just about every afternoon seemed to end in a
\ndownpour and I became reacquainted with the meaning of “soaked to the
\nbone.”  Now, however, the weather gods seemed to have changed
\ntheir minds.  This week has been beautiful, sunny, summer
\nweather—and I’ve been stuck inside writing a paper and staring out the
\nwindow longingly.<\/p>\n

Bob Lessnau came back to BCI at the end of February to help me dart and
\nradio-collar a few more monkeys for  my study.  This time
\naround was a whole lot easier than last time.  We got five monkeys
\nwith relatively little trauma (either emotional or physical, to us or
\nthem).  Interestingly, we only got females this time—the males
\njust wouldn’t give us a clear shot at their butts.  We even seem
\nto have gotten better at catching the monkeys in the hammocks when they
\nfall—we only missed two!<\/p>\n

Marcos Guerra, a photographer who works with STRI, came out with us one day and took some nice photos.<\/p>\n

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Bob and Claudia drawing blood <\/p>\n

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Ella was named after the demon-capuchin monkey from hell in the horror
\nmovie “Monkey Shine”—high quality cinema if I’ve ever seen it.  <\/p>\n

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weighing Ella with a Pesola scale.  She only weighed 2.2 kg—the smallest female we caught.  <\/p>\n

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Measuring her arm length<\/p>\n

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This was the photo they ended up using in the STRI news story about my
\nresearch.  It took me a while, but I kind of like it.  <\/p>\n

There was only really one downside to this round of darting:  dry
\nseason means ticks.  We were all covered head to toe in tick bites
\nafter a day of darting.<\/p>\n

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A small percentage of my hundreds of tick bites.<\/p>\n

This spring, BCI has had its very own Christo to compete with the
\nbeautiful but strange installation in Central Park.  Andrea has
\nbeen wrapping her greenhouses in shade-cloth, so her seedlings won’t
\nfry in the sun.  Unfortunately, standing on a ladder in the sun
\nall day long for several days in a row, sewing together strips of shade
\ncloth may have fried her brain.  You can’t say it doesn’t look
\npretty.<\/p>\n

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This juvenile tiger heron has been hanging out around the labs recently too.<\/p>\n

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I also spent a really fun afternoon last month moored in the lake below
\na fruiting fig tree that lots of monkeys were feeding in.  Alex <\/p>\n

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and I took a picnic dinner, watched the howler monkeys and capuchin monkeys gorging themselves<\/p>\n

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and then after dark got to see kinkajous feeding in the same fig using the ARTS lab’s 3.5 million candle power flashlight!<\/p>\n

We also had an adventure driving out to Fort San Lorenzo on the
\nCaribbean coast—I’m finally 25 and can rent cars!!  The first part
\nof the adventure involved getting lost in downtown Colon (not really
\nsomeplace you want to be lost!).<\/p>\n

Then we got to drive over one of the Gatun locks<\/p>\n

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Then came the never ending dirt road.  We kept passing signs that
\ngave the distance to the fort.  Except the further we drove, the
\nfurther away the fort seemed to get.  You’d pass a sign saying 9
\nkm to Fort San Lorenzo, and 10 minutes later the next sign would say it
\nwas 15 km to the fort.  (I learned a few weeks later, while
\nvacationing with my parents, that this kind of confusion about
\ndistances seems to be ubiquitous in Panama).  We did finally get
\nto the fort however, and it was absolutely worth it.<\/p>\n

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Oropenola nests near Fort San Lorenzo<\/p>\n

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The other really cool thing I did before going on vacation with my
\nparents was visit the Gatun locks.  I had been foolishly blas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems like a really long time since I’ve posted anything here, and there are so many cool things I’ve done in the last couple of months that it’s hard to figure out where to start.  Time seems to be speeding up now, which is a sure sign that I’m closer to the end of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crofootstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/crofoot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/crofoot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/crofoot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/crofoot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/crofoot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/crofoot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/crofoot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/crofoot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/crofoot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/crofoot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}