It’s been a while since I updated this, we’ve been really busy with fieldwork this week! Last Saturday we went horseriding as planned. We took the bus from TEC and stopped off at the artbox, a random souvenir shop along the highway, for ice cream and cokes. Then we tried to order a taxi to take us to the horseriding place, which turned out to be a lot more complicated than we’d anticipated! Eventually we gave up and started walking down the road, which ...

Haven’t written this for ages, but sadly haven’t really been able to do much recently! Felt a bit ill at the beginning of last week, and after a few days Becci decided that me and Zoe should go to the hospital just to make sure that it was nothing serious. We discovered that we both had Dengue fever! It’s passed between people via mosquitoes and as it’s a virus there isn’t any treatment, you just have to rest a lot and leave your immune system to fig...

Have got a little bit behind with writing this, which is a bit problematic as I can't entirely remember waht I've been doing this week but I'll try! Every day we've had to check the traps and bait at big falls. As there hasn't been any rain this week we were hoping that the chances of us catching something would be quite high, but no luck so far other than catching a toad and an opossum. Sadly neither is of any use! On monday we had to move out of our rooms a...

On Thursday afternoon, after relaxing for a bit to make up for the lack of sleep, me and Ed headed off to take daytime postions of the paca we still have radio collared. As the cars are all in use for other fieldwork, we have to cycle over from TEC to the area where the paca lives. It was actually surprisingly fun; as it was late afternoon it wasn't too hot and there was quite a nice breeze. The bikes are all in various states of brokenness and it seems to var...

Am a little behind with this because the last few days have been pretty busy, since we sent up the traps. Firstly scrap whatever plan I had written down for saturday; clare, charlotte and gen got back from trying to locate the paca with looks of despair saying that they'd been lead around in circles by the radio signal. In the afternoon we all headed out to try and locate which burrow this paca was sleeping in....... three and a half hours later we were no clos...