• Katherine Archer
  • Katherine Archer

Panama 🐒

A 22-day adventure by Katherine Read more
  • Trip start
    May 5, 2024
  • ITEC

    May 6–8, 2024 in Panama ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C

    The last few days have been super busy in the field and honestly hard, but super cool! I do miss showers though. We got to Bocas and ITEC since I last updated and it's been looonnggggg days, today we were up at 5 and now in bed at 10 so I'll have a good sleep tonight!Read more

  • First great monkey day!

    May 9, 2024 in Panama ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

    Yesterday morning our group found a troop to study! 3 females with clinging infants, 2 males, and one sub adult female! we followed them for 2.5 hours and I got to practice my data collection (which is getting slowly better). It was so rewarding after all the hours trudging around the jungle, plus they were adorable!!! Try and spot them all!Read more

  • Capuchins!

    May 10, 2024 in Panama ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

    on the 10th we got to see our second species of monkeys, Cebus monkeys! these guys aren't habituated to us studying them and weren't very happy with us watching them so we're displaying a lot of antagonistic behaviors. But who could be afraid of these cuties throwing nuts and shaking branches?Read more

  • Creepy (not really) Crawlies

    May 13, 2024 in Panama ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C

    yesterday we went on a spider/bug walk with Leo, one of the people who live here and run the place. she did her research on golden orb weavers, a super pretty spider but we also got to hold a millipede, and I was the one who's hand it opened up on! it was so so so cool and felt like a little hairbrush walking on my hands!!Read more

  • Trip end
    May 26, 2024