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Costa Rica on a relaxed birding pace

10,000 Birds

After 14 hours of flight / 20 h spent travelling to reach Costa Rica from Eastern Europe, I landed in San Jose in the rain. – the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre in Turrialba. It was close to 5 a.m., the best time for city traffic to eat me alive. More about it in the weeks to come.

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SRI Denies Access to the Humane Society

Critter News

From the San Jose Mercury News. A Menlo Park research facility Monday refused to allow a humane society representative to check up on a monkey that bit a female lab worker the day before. Tags: animal research humane society primates. If the incident is insignificant, then why deny access? The worker.