Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Lippouts and animals
Cool animals stuff so far...Went out and camped overnight with Chico Javier to look for mamamls, and it was great fun, it was a good clear night with no rain and not too cold, and saw two mexican porcupines, a kinkajou, and a skunk. There should be more mammals here, but there arent because the habitat is so fragmented there are no nearby big tracts of forsts to serve as sources, and too much edge, and human interference.
Two separate days I have been to a lek of long tailed manakins! Small black birds with a bright blue cape, red heads, and long scissor like tail feathers that group together and dance and sing to attract the ladies. They duet these crazy songs and then stand on a brach a few inches from each other and take turns flying up about 1-2 feet and flipping around in the air with their birght orange legs, and duetting this funny To-le-do sounding song. way cool, but hard to describe
And I finally saw a quetzal, but only the female.
on another note...
Peole here do not point with their hands, they point with their lips. Weird, And they can do it while talking. And they also have a crazy amount o and signals that I am just starting to understand and that some peace Corp volunteers have expained to me.
And the use swear words here on a daily basis, that dont means anything bad.
Like chinga means jeez, or jesus christ, or other exclamation when something not so great happens
And pinche means cheap
And some more good names
Lenin, Bismark, LadiMarssiel, Ladidi (as in Lady Di, princess of wales, only pronounced Ladeedee), Sida (pronounced seedar).
Two separate days I have been to a lek of long tailed manakins! Small black birds with a bright blue cape, red heads, and long scissor like tail feathers that group together and dance and sing to attract the ladies. They duet these crazy songs and then stand on a brach a few inches from each other and take turns flying up about 1-2 feet and flipping around in the air with their birght orange legs, and duetting this funny To-le-do sounding song. way cool, but hard to describe
And I finally saw a quetzal, but only the female.
on another note...
Peole here do not point with their hands, they point with their lips. Weird, And they can do it while talking. And they also have a crazy amount o and signals that I am just starting to understand and that some peace Corp volunteers have expained to me.
And the use swear words here on a daily basis, that dont means anything bad.
Like chinga means jeez, or jesus christ, or other exclamation when something not so great happens
And pinche means cheap
And some more good names
Lenin, Bismark, LadiMarssiel, Ladidi (as in Lady Di, princess of wales, only pronounced Ladeedee), Sida (pronounced seedar).
